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Nganampa Health Council Inc.
Address
3 Wilkinson St, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871 Australia
Telephone
8952 5300
Umuwa office: 8954 9040
Umuwa office: 8954 9040
Fax
8952 2299
Website
Postal Address
PO Box 2232, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871 Australia
Eligibility
People living on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands, in the far north-west of South Australia
Comment
An Aboriginal owned and controlled health organisation operating on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north west of South Australia. Main clinics are located at Amata, Fregon, Iwantja (Indulkana), Mimili, Pipalyatjara, Pukatja (Ernabella). Health worker stations are located at Yunyarinyi (Kenmore), Nyapari and Watarru. The administrative centres are based at Umuwa and Alice Springs
Services
- Clinical services staffed by Aboriginal health workers, nurses and visiting medical officers
- Aged and disability care program - daily meals, laundry, personal care, transport to enable people to remain on their land for as long as possible and avoid residential placement or hospitalisation
- Child health services - immunisation, school aged screening, child growth monitoring and nutrition
- Dental services - clinics at Pukatja and Iwantja; dental truck visits other communities and homelands where possible
- Health worker education and training
- Mental health services
- Sexual health services - including STD and HIV prevention
- Respite care for aged people - short term residential respite at Tjilpi Pampa Ngura Respite Facility, Pukatja
- Women's health program - reproductive health, breast and cervical screening, health education program for young women
- Education and training for health workers - Certificate 2 and 3 in Aboriginal Primary Health Care
- UPK (Uwangkara Palyanyku Kanyintjaku) environmental health program provides advice to communities on power generation and supply, housing, waste management and water
