The Federal Government will now spend $5.7 million to support Indigenous people suffering from kidney failure, following campaigns from remote suffering patients to provide treatment centres outside capital cities.
The money spent will be used to provide more mobile dialysis treatment centres to those in remote areas of Australia as well as compensate for a new medicare item in the mobile treatments favour.
The inclusion of more mobile treatments will allow for Indigenous patients to be treated for dialysis without living a ‘disputed lifestyle’ which many patients felt previously when leaving the comfort and support of their families for treatment.