Medical professionals from Melbourne arrived in Tallangatta on Tuesday to help the local health service provide an outreach service to those impacted by the bushfires.
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Coburg-based Harding Street Medical Centre has sent a GP, nurse and receptionist to Tallangatta Health Service for four days to provide extra sets of hands so a mobile team can visit affected areas.
Harding Street co-partners Margaret Eagle and Susan McGill reached out to see if their practice could offer any assistance in the bushfire recovery.
And the extra help will go a long way, according to Tallangatta Health Service chief executive Denise Parry.
"The Melbourne team will free up a medical team to travel to towns including Dartmouth, Tallangatta Valley, Bullioh, Granya and Talgarno while also meeting day-to-day needs," she said.
The mobile team will include Dr Benjamin Nelson, Dr Rasmita Mishra, registered nurse Louise Bowran, nurse practitioner Sue Reid and social worker Cathy Wallace.
"I am grateful for the kind and generous support provided by Harding Street Medical Centre who are donating their team and the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service who kindly lent their clinical van," Ms Parry said.
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"It is a great example of health services kinship.
"They have reached out to allow us to provide easy access to medical services for those people in local towns in what is a worthwhile bushfire recovery initiative.
"We know that farmers particularly don't want to take time to travel during the day so we are coming to them."
Co-partners of Harding Street Medical Centre Dr Margaret Eagle and Dr Susan McGill reached out to see if their practice could offer any assistance in the bushfire recovery.
"It was a practical way of one GP practice to help another and we are very pleased the offer was taken up," Dr Eagle and Dr McGill said.
The outreach will visit farmers and other residents between Tuesday, March 10 and Friday, March 13 in the clinical van on loan from the Aboriginal health service.