The CRANAplus offices will be closed from midday Tuesday 24 December and will reopen on Thursday 2 January 2025. The CRANAplus Bush Support Line is available throughout the holidays and can be contacted at any time on 1300 805 391.

Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service

Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service presently provides services to Jigalong, Punmu, Kunawarritji and Parnngurr with a client base of 830 and growing.

pams.pm@puntukurnu.com

http://www.puntukurnu.com/

PAMS’ Clin­ics are locat­ed at Jiga­long (Hub), Pun­mu, Parn­ngurr and Kunawar­ritji; for ref­er­ence the straight line dis­tance from Jiga­long to Kunawar­ritji is approx­i­mate­ly 430 kilo­me­tres, the dis­tance from Kunawar­ritji to Port Hed­land by road is 763 kilometers.

PAMS has over 830 reg­is­tered clients with the major­i­ty liv­ing in Jigalong.

Just over 90% of the clients are Abo­rig­i­nal with most being Mar­tu. Dur­ing 2009 – 2010 over 20,000 Episodes of Care were pro­vid­ed by the med­ical staff, GPs, Nurs­es and Abo­rig­i­nal Health Workers.