Indigenous paramedic cadets helping improve service for patients - ABC News

FISH congratulates the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on their ongoing reporting of positive stories from across Australia. This was recently exemplified on the reporting by ABC North West Qld reporters Julia André, Larissa Waterson, and Emily Dobson on their story of Indigenous paramedic cadets helping Queensland Ambulance Service better connect with patients in Mt Isa. The FISH Team celebrates Kalkadoon woman Lurlene Slater who has lived in the rural Queensland mining city of Mount Isa her whole life and wants to make a difference for her community. It wasn't until Lurlene joined the Queensland Ambulance Service as a cadet recently that she realised just how dire the state of her people's health was. As reported by the ABC, "That was what shocked me the most, just how sick our mob are," she said. In Mount Isa, Indigenous people account for 21 per cent of the rural city's near-19,000 residents, according to the latest census data. Yet they make up the majority of jobs paramedics are called out to. Now, as one of two Indigenous cadets in the Mount Isa team, she's helping build bridges between the local healthcare systems and some of the city's most vulnerable First Nations people. "I think it's great for me as an Indigenous cadet to be able to help fill in the gaps we have with servicing our Indigenous people out here," she said. For the full ABC story click on the following link https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-19/ind... #paramedic #cadet #wecanallmakeadifference #togetherwecan #togetherwecandomore #togetherwearebetter #makeadifference #makeadifferenceeveryday #makeadifferencetoday #makeanimpact #openyoureyes #workingtogether #workingtogetherfortomorrow #workingtochangetheworld #success #congratulations