Renal Health

The overall goal of Gumala’s Renal (Dialysis) Health Project is to create a comprehensive renal mobile/satellite health clinic that serves the Gumala Aboriginal Corporation (GAC) membership living in the Pilbara region by the end of 2011.

The specific objectives of the project are to:

• Establish satellite clinics to increase patient access to reliable treatment, decrease patient time spent in transport and promote a better quality of life;

• Develop a mobile service that will regularly travel from the regional hub to the patient’s homes and/or to satellite clinics. It is proposed that a suitably qualified person would be stationed in the town where the satellite clinic is so that transportation blockages caused by cyclone season do not adversely affect the treatment plans of the patients; and

•  Enhance/increase residential facilities around existing treatment sites to enable more patients to move residence to promote ease of use.