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Katherine West Health Board

Locality: Katherine, Northern Territory

Phone: +61 8 8971 9300

Address: 38 First St 0850 Katherine, NT, Australia

Website: http://www.kwhb.com.au

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25.01.2022 Syphilis is sneaky, you could have syphilis and not know it. See your local Health Centre for a sexual health check up once a year or more if you have different partners. #gettested #usecondoms

24.01.2022 What's a safe amount of grog to drink in 1 week? Grog isn't good for our bodies, to drop the risk of harm from grog Men and Women stick to no more than 10 standard drinks in 1 week Drink Safe, Be Safe, Have A Deadly Time

24.01.2022 There is no safe amount of grog when you are breastfeeding. Grog goes through your breastmilk Keep you and your baby safe by staying grog free while you are breastfeeding.

22.01.2022 Safe Drinking Tip By choosing mid strength beer you can stay in control and party for longer Drink Safe, Be Safe, Have A Deadly Time

19.01.2022 Have you heard of a standard drink? A standard drink is an amount of grog that has 10 grams of alcohol in it. Knowing about standard drinks helps you keep a track of how much you are drinking. Drink Safe, Be Safe, Have a Deadly Time

18.01.2022 Timber Creek and Kalkaringi KWHB has the COVID-19 immunisation ready to offer to people aged 50 years and over this week. Clinic mob will yarn with everyone who is over the age of 50 about the COVID-19 immunisation this week.

17.01.2022 KWHB Worry Nurse and SEWB Support Worker with Sudha Coutinho at Day 2 Mental Health First Aid , Staff from the Safe House, Remote School Attendance Strategy, Kalkaringi School, Victoria Daly Regional Council, Wanta AC, One Tree Community Services Inc.and our KWHB Chairperson all learning how to help each other when times might get tough with big worries and sad spirit. Youth MHFA course being run in Lajamanu this Thursday and Friday #SpeakUp and share your worries with someone you trust #MHFA Australia Mental Health First Aid Australia

16.01.2022 Sinon, Japarte and David are traveling to Timber Creek , Yarralin, Lajamanu and Kalkaringi this week with NT Police, Top End Health Services and the Department of the Chief Minister to yarn with Community Members about what will happen if there is COVID-19 or Coronavirus in one of KWHB Communities. Tuesday 12pm Kalkaringi Wednesday 10am Lajamanu Thursday 9am Yarralin

15.01.2022 Hey Yarralin mob Healthy Harold and Milpa will be in Yarralin on Tuesday for some Healthy Holiday Fun

15.01.2022 Cigarettes vs Food We set the challenge to see what healthy food you could buy at Bulla Store for the same cost value as cigarettes. For 25g tobacco + papers, we got;... - breakfast: Weet-bix with milk - lunch: Steak and mushroom soup with rice - dinner: Chicken Stir Fry with vegetables and rice - snacks: Apples What’s your Smoke Free story? National Best Practice Unit Tackling Indigenous Smoking #oneshieldforall #nosmokingchallenge

15.01.2022 Catching syphilis while you’re pregnant can be dangerous for the baby. As soon as you think you might be pregnant see your local Health Centre for a syphilis blood test. #gettested #usecondoms

15.01.2022 Health mob visiting communities this week. Yarn with your local clinic for more details. #oneshieldforall

14.01.2022 SWEET TIP Raw or brown sugar is the same for your body as white sugar.

14.01.2022 Hey Lajamanu Mob, Keep a lookout for Healthy Harold and Miss Page this week at school. Healthy Harold will be yarning about harms of smoking and he wants to hear your smoke free story! Then we can have some fun and get colourful ... National Best Practice Unit Tackling Indigenous Smoking #oneshieldforall

14.01.2022 Share your choice to protect yourself, your family and community from the COVID-19 sickness. Take a deadly photo with our banner in the clinic when you get the COVID-19 immunisation. ... #oneshieldforall

14.01.2022 Are you feeling fever cough or short wind paining throat weak one?... Keep our mob safe and ask for a COVID-19 swab. See more

13.01.2022 Some colour run fun at Amanbidji after learning about the dangers of smoking with Healthy Harold Nicole Zicchino Photographer Life Education NT... National Best Practice Unit Tackling Indigenous Smoking #oneshieldforall

12.01.2022 Our Worry Nurse, Megan and Wellbeing Worker, Nikita are in Pigeon Hole Monday and Tuesday to run the Yarning about Suicide workshop with Community Members.

12.01.2022 We would like to thank Rotary Club of Darwin, INPEX Australia, Ventia, Monash University, @unimelb, Indigenous Eye Health - IEH for working together to create the Trachoma Water Trailer for KWHB. We cant wait to get the trailer out to our communities to share the story about how to stay safe from germ like trachoma in a fun and interactive way with Healthy Harold. Clean Faces, Strong Eyes Life Education NT

12.01.2022 There is no safe amount of grog when you are pregnant Keep you and your baby safe by staying grog free for the whole pregnancy

11.01.2022 Boxercise is on this week at the Timber Creek Shire Basketball Court See below for times Keep other safe - If you feel sick one stay at home

11.01.2022 Our new trachoma interactive water trailer had its first trip out to Myatt where we yarned about trachoma and how to stay safe from germs like trachoma in a fun and cool way with KWHB Health Promotion Team. Clean Faces, Strong Eyes Rotary Club of Darwin

11.01.2022 There is no shame getting a check up to look after you and your baby #gettested #usecondoms

11.01.2022 Our Aboriginal Health Practitioners, Wellbeing Workers and the Health Promotion team got to check out the Harold Van while it was in Katherine. Thanks Paige and Deb Life Education NT

11.01.2022 Have you thought about different ways to move your body more? One great way is to get out with your children and have some fun. Check out these deadly mob getting into the Boxing session at Myatt. You can also join in our group Boxercise sessions when our Exercise Physiologist; Rhiannon is in your community- look out for the Boxercise posters hanging in your community and posted on our Facebook page on Mondays

10.01.2022 Make a Deadly Choice Getting a health check is a healthy choice! When you get a yearly health check, you see an Aboriginal Health Practitioner or Nurse and they will ask you some questions and take some blood for blood tests. After a week you come back to see the Doctor, either in person or by Telehealth. The Doctor will ask you some more questions, tell you about your results and anything else. ... Then you can grab your Deadly Choices shirt. The shirts are for KWHB Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients of any age. See more

08.01.2022 Health mob visiting communities this week. Yarn with your local clinic for more details. #oneshieldforall

07.01.2022 The Health Centres will be closed on Monday 26th April for the ANZAC Day public holiday. See the clinic mob this week for your medications so you don’t run out.

06.01.2022 Budget Busting Tucker Tip Add tinned fruit to your breakfast if you don’t have fresh fruit. Tinned fruit is tasty and just as good as the fresh stuff!

06.01.2022 Hello, remember me? My name is Lynette I am the Ngumpin/Yapa Liaison Officer for Katherine West Health Board, I’ve been working at Katherine West for 13 years, during that time I have worked in different roles in town but beginning of this year I was put in another role called Strong Beginnings 4 Strong Families I still am the Ngumpin/Yapa Liaison Officer so, if you have any patient travel problem please call me, but in the mean time hopefully I will see you in your community working alongside Sue TeWake, Laura McBride and Elise Cottrill in supporting our Mums, Bubs and Families.

05.01.2022 You might have seen lots about COVID19 (Corona Virus) on the news or on the internet. As of today, there are no cases of COVID19 in the Katherine West Health Board (KWHB) Communities. This may change over the coming weeks.... If you catch the COVID 19 virus, most people will just be a little bit sick with a runny nose, cough or a sore throat. Not everyone that gets COVID 19 will get a fever. People that are older, smokers or those who have chronic disease like diabetes, heart problems, lung sickness or kidney disease who catch the Covid19 virus can get biggest mob sick with a biggest mob bad cold and might have to go to hospital. Some of these people may pass away from this sickness. Katherine West Heath Board is yarning every day with the Northern Territory Government about COVID- 19 and we have plans in place for when COVID-19 sickness comes to our communities. KWHB is screening anyone we are wanting to send to our communities for travel and sickness. We are cancelling the travel of any of our staff or service providers that have been overseas or are sick until we can be sure they are safe to travel. The best way to stop the spread of germs like the COVID 19 by -Washing your hands with soap, -If you are sick, stay home away from other people -Cough into your elbow or a tissue, put your tissue straight into the bin and then wash your hands - Try to keep your hands away from your face. - Don’t share drinks or smokes. If you have any worries yarn with your local Health Centre staff We will put updates our Facebook page and Instagram page Other places to get up to date information is https://www.facebook.com/secureNT/ https://securent.nt.gov.au/ale/coronavirus-covid-19-updates Stay tuned for more KWHB updates . #oneshieldforall #flattenthecurve #covid19 #coronavirus

04.01.2022 Yarralin Community! We will be blowing up the big screen to show the community our new Grog in Pregnancy video tomorrow.

04.01.2022 Congratulations Lorraine! Lorraine is our senior Aboriginal Health Practitioner in Yarralin who has completed the COVID-19 immunisation training program. The COVID-19 immunisation is one way to help protect yourself and your family and community from the COVID-19 sickness.

03.01.2022 KWHB SEWB Support Worker Nikita and Worry Nurse Megan at Lajamanu helping community mob to have yarns with young people who may have big worries or sad spirits. Speak up! Share your worries with someone you trust. Mental Health First Aid Australia Northern Territory Government Telling Story AAI

03.01.2022 Ask family or your friend R U OK? If you think they have biggest mob of worries or acting a bit different If they are not doing ok you can get help from your local clinic , the KWHB Worry Nurse or you can call any of these numbers for support NT Mental Health Line (free) - 1800 682 288 Kids Help Line (free) - 1800 55 1800... Suicide Call Back (free) - 1300 659 467 #speakup share your worries https://youtu.be/AAvXqXE75Cw

03.01.2022 Health Centres closed today for NAIDOC Day Emergencies only

03.01.2022 More and more young people are getting Type 2 Diabetes Listen to Jades story below Check ups at the clinic once a year for young people can find diabetes early. Thanks Jade and Menzies School of Health Research for sharing this story ... https://vimeo.com/373814377 See more

02.01.2022 Kylie fromTimber Creek is yarning about why its important to take her kids to see the Kid Doctor when they are in Community

02.01.2022 We are bringing the new ‘Grog in Pregnancy’ videos to Yarralin on next Tuesday night the 24th November at the school Basketball court They show men and women yarning about staying grog free to grow a healthy child. Staying off grog when pregnant keeps babies safe from that FASD - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.... Drink safe. Be safe. Have a deadly time.

01.01.2022 Hey Kalkaringi Mob, Keep a lookout for Healthy Harold and Miss Page this week at school. Healthy Harold will be yarning about harms of smoking and he wants to hear your smoke free story! Then we can have some fun and get colourful ... National Best Practice Unit Tackling Indigenous Smoking #oneshieldforall