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Annette Lin

Remote dialysis to end long treks for outback patients

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney said the units could change things for remote patients. (Annette Lin/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Kidney failure may not be fatal, but for people in remote communities it can feel that way when they are forced to travel thousands of kilometres for treatment.

Yanyuwa woman Carol Charlie has spent the last six years in Darwin, nearly 1000km from her home in the Gulf of Carpentaria, so she can access this necessary treatment.

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