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Increasing access to Renal Facilities across the Northern Territory

Office of the Chief Minister

Works are continuing on the new $10.5 million Nightcliff Renal Unit facility with stage one underway.

The new facility is part of the program that is increasing access to renal facilities across the Northern Territory – including remote communities.

The upgrade and expansion of the fit-for-purpose Nightcliff Renal Unit will see an improved layout and environment for patients who receive dialysis and an additional four dialysis chairs increasing the capacity to 32 chairs.

Local contractor Sitzler is undertaking the works in three stages so patients can continue to receive treatment at Nightcliff Renal.

Stage one includes the construction of a new clinical area being built adjacent to the existing Nightcliff Renal Unit.

Basic framing of the new clinical area can now be seen, the electrical services rough in is taking shape and the roofing works continues.
In addition to the new clinical area, there will be a new patient consultation and reception area, new staff area including additional office space, improved parking facilities and site landscaping.

Lifesaving dialysis treatment is just weeks away from being available at Pirlangimpi – allowing residents to access renal facilities without the need to leave their communities and family.

The new facility will allow trained patients to self-dialyse at a time convenient for them and their families.

Quotes from the Minister for Health Natasha Fyles:

“Many Territorians rely on life saving dialysis treatment every year with many of those Territorians accessing treatment at the Nightcliff Renal Unit.”

“$10.5 million was committed to the redevelopment of the Nightcliff Renal Unit to address issues with aging infrastructure and to upgrade and expand the facility.”

Quotes from the Member for Arafura Lawrence Costa:

“Most people living in remote communities need to relocate to an urban centre in order to receive dialysis treatment, which is upsetting and disruptive to the patient and their family, and also costly. However, with the move towards self-care dialysis, renal patients in remote communities, which in the case of the NT includes a large number of Aboriginal people, can instead receive treatment in their home community.”

 

Media contact: Rob Cross 0439 778 095

 

 


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