Diphtheria outbreak: residents of remote NT community say health clinic has no hand sanitiser

There’s a three-week wait on test results in Yuendumu, near Alice Springs, and locals say NT Health has dropped the ball on telling locals what to do if they test positive Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A remote Aboriginal community at the centre of the Northern Territory’s diphtheria outbreak is struggling to cope with rising case numbers, with locals saying there is no hand sanitiser at the health clinic and limited information about how to avoid the disease o...

By Douglas Smith Indigenous affairs reporter