Cataract surgery for Gulf patients

Derek Barry
Updated October 14 2016 - 3:11pm, first published 3:02pm

Twenty-six Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from the Lower Gulf will have sight-saving cataract surgery this week as health providers work together to coordinate this logistically challenging endeavour. A second round of cataract surgery will be delivered in November for another 28 locals.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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