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WA Country Health Services - Kimberley Population Unit

The WA Country Health Services is the largest country health system in Australia and one of the biggest in the world.

http://www.wacountry.health.wa.gov.au/

It pro­vides health ser­vices to approx­i­mate­ly half a mil­lion peo­ple, includ­ing 45,000 Abo­rig­i­nal peo­ple, over a vast two and a half mil­lion square kilometres.

WA Coun­try Health Ser­vice hos­pi­tals han­dle as many births as the State’s major mater­ni­ty hos­pi­tal – and as many emer­gency pre­sen­ta­tion­sas Perth met­ro­pol­i­tan hos­pi­tals com­bined. The range of health ser­vices pro­vid­ed cov­er pop­u­la­tion health, men­tal health, Indige­nous health and aged care.

Our ded­i­cat­ed and com­mit­ted staff work hard to ful­fill our pur­pose — Work­ing togeth­er for a health­i­er coun­try WA, to deliv­er health ser­vices that sup­port the health and well-being of indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties in rur­al and remote West­ern Australia.