Gunbalanya supports health initiative

The importance of skin health was put in the spotlight with a very successful ‘healthy skin, healthy community’ initiative taking place in Gunbalanya over the last two weeks.
With the overall goal to promote health and wellbeing in Gunbalanya, the whole-of-community initiative involved a great number of agencies delivering different components including health promotions, health checks at the Clinic, door-to-door education, a community clean up, a tidy home and garden competition and more.
The agencies involved were Gunbalanya Health Centre, West Arnhem Regional Council, One Disease Mob, Intract, Gunbalanya Community School, Red Lily Health Board, Safer Communities for Children, ALPA, CDP and Community Care.
Throughout the week, health workers from the various agencies went around visiting residents and stakeholders in the community to raise awareness about the importance of skin care, crusted scabies and overall skin health as well as providing free bags of goodies.
Asher Badari of the Gunbalanya Health Centre said it is very important for people of all ages to know how to identify skin abnormalities and to regularly perform check-ups on each other.
Linking heathy skin with a healthy community, residents were also encouraged to clean their home and garden with an exciting competition and great prizes thanks to West Arnhem Regional Council.
This competition was judged by Member for Arafura Lawrence Costa MLA with community member Paulette announced as the winner at a huge community celebration with bush tucker, music and more.
West Arnhem Regional Council also supported the week by providing extra hard rubbish runs, skip bins and removing abandoned car bodies from around the community.
A huge congratulations to all involved in making the initiative a great success.