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Portland District Health services the Glenelg Shire with major population centres being the city of Portland and the townships of Heywood, Narrawong, Tyrendarra and Nelson. The population which we service is approximately 16,739.

Our vision is that Portland District Health will deliver excellence in health services through continually challenging ourselves to do better and creatively meeting the needs of the community by listening, living and working together.

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Volunteers play a vital role within Portland District Health.

At present we have 186 registered volunteers with Portland District Health averaging a combined total of 846 hours per month through various programs that assist the patients, clients, residents and staff.

There are many areas that use volunteers to enhance their programs.

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PDH donation to help eliminate avoidable blindness in Rwanda
Monday, 25 January 2010


Story courtesy of Portland Observer, Wednesday January 20, 2010.

(photo by Tom Stanford)

A SLIT lamp used to diagnose a range of eye disorders from Portland District Health (PDH) has been donated to the Fred Hollows Foundation.

The lamp has been earmarked to be sent to Rwanda in Africa, which is home to 18 per cent of the world’s blind population. A five-year-program called the Western Province Blindness Prevention Program is aimed to contribute towards eliminating avoidable blindness in the Rubavu District Province in Rwanda.

Linzi Donlan from PDH said it was through the kind donation of a new slit lamp by Portland Aluminium, that the hospital was able to donate the secondhand lamp to the foundation. “I saw it (the foundation) on TV and contacted them and they were so pleased to be receiving the lamp,” Mrs Donlan said. The machine will be sent to Sydney this week and the lamp will then be sent overseas.

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