Health service to stay open, intervention nurse hired

A nurse previously deployed as part of the Commonwealth Indigenous intervention has returned to the Northern Territory to relieve a staffing shortage at the Aboriginal community of Kintore.

The Pintubi Health Service was facing closure over the Christmas-New Year period because it had only one nurse and no doctor.
Service administrator Jeff Hulcombe says contingencies have been made through the Emergency Response Taskforce, allowing it to stay open.
"We managed to get a nurse who was involved in the original health checks, not here but in the Territory to come here for that two week period from Christmas to over the New Year," he said.
"We've managed to line up a doctor but that's through our own efforts, and we've managed to secure a nurse through a recruiting agency from early January on."

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