Barwon Child Youth and Family — Geelong
Barwon Child Youth and Family offer free torture and trauma counselling for people of refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds.
Barwon Child Youth and Family offer free torture and trauma counselling for people of refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds.
The Immigrant and Refugee Health Clinic at Barwon Health runs each Tuesday morning in conjunction with the Infectious Diseases Clinic. The clinic is facilitated by a clinical nurse consultant and maintains close links with community services to ensure high quality care for refugees living in the Geelong area. Refugees are bulk-billed under Medicare and onsite interpreters are utilised.
Our Infectious Diseases Clinic is held once every four weeks, this clinic sees patients with a variety of infectious diseases including hepatitis. Additionally, we have an infectious diseases specialist, who conducts a small weekly clinic.
The Infectious Diseases department is a team of specialists who see people with diseases caused by microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses or fungus.
A comprehensive outpatient service is provided by specialist infectious diseases physicians including HIV medicine, Tuberculosis, Exotic and travel diseases, Needle stick injury management program, Post-surgical infections, General infections and PUOs, Post screening refugee care.