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Environment
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson

Doctors, nurses make emergency call on federal budget

The government is urged to ensure people can get vital health services in extreme weather events. (HANDOUT/BRETT'S DRONE PHOTOGRAPHY)

More than 40 groups representing doctors, nurses, researchers and hospitals are calling on the federal government to ensure Australians can access vital health services during extreme weather events.

The Climate and Health Alliance took out a full-page newspaper advertisement on Tuesday to raise awareness of the call to action, urging the government to fund the National Health and Climate Strategy it unveiled last December.

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