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Community Transition - adapting to the emerging future

Category: Health

Local health hazards

{accordion}Freshwater mosquitos:: breeding in wet seasons in pools drains swamps and containers in backyards can carry diseases:

  • Ross River Virus – arthritis lethargy rash
  • Barmah Forest Virus – arthritis lethargy rash
  • Heartworm (dogs and cats)

Brisbane City Council runs mosquito control programs spraying with insecticide read more

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Emergency services

{accordion} First Aid::

||||Queensland Ambulance Service:: – dial 000. Do not call 000 unless you are in critical need of emergency services (police fire or ambulance)

QLD Ambulance 1300 369 003

  • QAS Grovely now relocated to 543 Samford Rd Mitchelton

Mitchelton read more

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Community health services

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Aboriginal health services::

Keperra Family Practice & Skin Cancer Clinic

||||Aged care services::

  • Commonwealth Respite and Carelink Centres Carers Australia
  • Information on local aged and community care services
  • Arrange help for carers to take a break from their care role (respite)
  • Call 1800 052 222  Freecall
  • Emergency respite outside business hours 1800 059 059 Freecall
  • Carer Advisory and Counselling Service  1800 242 636

||||Alcoholism services::

  • Alcoholics Anonymous AA Helpline 3255 9162

||||Breastfeeding support::

  • Australian Breastfeeding Association helpline 3844 8166  3844 8977

||||Infant health clinics::

  • North West Community Health Centre Keperra
  • Keperra Family Practice & Skin Cancer Clinic

||||Disability read more

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Pharmacists & health equipment suppliers

Pharmacists / Chemists / Pharmacies / Spectacles / Diabetic Shoes / Hearing aids

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Arana Hills Discount Drug Store::

  • Arana Hills Kmart Plaza Arana Hills
  • 3351 3852 (Fax: 3851 1426)
  • Mon-Fri 8.30am-6.30pm Thurs 8.30am-9.00pm Sat 8.30am-5.00pm Sun 9.00am-4.00pm
  • www.discountdrugstores.com.au

||||Arana Plaza Day & Night Chemmart Chemist::

  • Arana Plaza 2 Patricks Rd Arana Hills  3351 6100
  • Photo printing First Digital  $2.50 + 19c/print (6″x4″) or $2.50 + 99c/print/6″x8″)
  • Optometrists prescriptions filled in fashion frames from $49.95 (Discount Optical)
  • Kate Morgan Weight Loss program
  • 2 JPs on staff
  • arana.plaza@nunet.com.au
  • NDSS Diabetes Pharmacy
  • Baby Clinic here on Wednesday morning from 9am until 11.30am.

||||Dallas Parade Compounding read more

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Medical specialists

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Cancer management::

||||Gynaecologists::

||||Heart care::

||||Hip & knee care::

  • Dynamic Podiatry 135 Ferny Way Ferny Hills 3351 8878

||||Obstetricians::

||||Opticians::

||||Orthodontists::

  • Ferny Hills Orthodontic Practice 135 Ferny Way Ferny Hills 3351 4848

||||Orthopaedic specialists::

||||Paediatricians::

||||Pain read more

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