{"id":2177,"date":"2017-07-17T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2017-07-17T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T06:55:43","slug":"health-care-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=2177","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Bags"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shirley Wilkie, Joan Mellahn, Ada Wood, Ethel Riley, Lynne Stephens, Leone Tress, Jeanette Healey, Debra Chaplin, Reverend Jan Harper and Nicola Perry with some of the care bags.<\/p>\n

Various Swan Hill community groups have worked together to create health care bags for Members of the local Aboriginal community who are admitted to hospital under traumatic circumstances.<\/p>\n

Members from the Department of Justice, Swan Hill Dental Health, Nyah West\/Swan Hill Mother\u2019s Union, and the Swan Hill Anglican Church recently donated a dozen bags to Swan Hill District Health to distribute to people in need.\u00a0 The bags include items such as clothes, deodorant, shampoo, notebook and pencil and a dental health care pack.\u00a0 Swan Hill District Health Aboriginal Hospital Liaison officer Debra Chaplin was inspired to start the initiative after she heard about a Melbourne hospital that did a similar thing.\u00a0 She spoke to Jan Harper who had previously discussed how money the church had raised for Indigenous health through selling post cards, could be best used. \u00a0Ms Chaplin said she definitely saw a need for the care packages in Swan Hill.\u00a0 People come in after traumatic experiences \u2013 it could be a fight or domestic abuse \u2013 and their clothes are often damaged. They really appreciate the fact that they have something clean to change into while they\u2019re in hospital. This is a way of making them feel more comfortable during a difficult time.<\/p>\n

At the moment 12 bags have been donated, but the group hope to create more to keep up with the need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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