Nganampa Health Council Inc.
Nganampa Health Council Inc.
3 Wilkinson St Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871
08 8952 5300
08 8954 9040 Umuwa office
08 8954 9040 Umuwa office
08 8952 2299
PO Box 2232 Alice Springs, Northern Territory 0871
Hours:
Mon - Fri 8.30am - 5.30pm
Eligibility:
People living on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, in the far north-west of South Australia
Branch address:
- Main clinics are located at Amata, Fregon, Iwantja (Indulkana), Mimili, Pipalyatjara, Pukatja (Ernabella). Health worker stations are located at Yunyarinyi (Kenmore) and Nyapari. The administrative centres are based at Umuwa and Alice Springs
An Aboriginal owned and controlled health organisation operating on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in the far north west of South Australia.
Information
Services
- Clinical services staffed by Aboriginal health workers, nurses and visiting medical officers
- Aged and disability care program - daily meals, laundry, personal care, transport to enable people to remain on their land for as long as possible and avoid residential placement or hospitalisation
- Child health services - immunisation, school aged screening, child growth monitoring and nutrition
- Dental services - clinics at Pukatja and Iwantja; dental truck visits other communities and homelands where possible
- Health worker education and training
- Mental health services
- Sexual health services - including STD and HIV prevention
- Respite care for aged people - short term residential respite at Tjilpi Pampa Ngura Respite Facility, Pukatja
- Women's health program - reproductive health, breast and cervical screening, health education program for young women
- Education and training for health workers - Certificate 2 and 3 in Aboriginal Primary Health Care
- UPK (Uwangkara Palyanyku Kanyintjaku) environmental health program provides advice to communities on power generation and supply, housing, waste management and water
Last updated: 21/06/2023
Information provided for: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
This record was updated by: Volunteer Rex.
Information provided for: Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara
This record was updated by: Volunteer Rex.
Council: NT
Electorate (State): NT
- 136Aboriginal People
- 65Ageing in Place
- 101Community Health Services
- 71Dental Services
- 26 Dentists
- 16Environmental Health
- 35Eye Services
- 340Health Education
- 247Health Services
- 36Hearing Services
- 700Home Care & Support
- 49Mens Health
- 478Mental Health
- 260Reproductive Health
- 175Respite Care (Residential)
- 26Sexual Health
- 59Womens Health
- 2X-rays