Child doctors improve Indigenous health where governments have failed

By Julie Power
Updated July 14 2015 - 10:28am, first published June 26 2015 - 1:49pm
Damon Schubert-Ogilvy, 11 graduated as a Dhalayi doctor as part of the Malpa Young Doctors project.  Photo: Peter Rae
Damon Schubert-Ogilvy, 11 graduated as a Dhalayi doctor as part of the Malpa Young Doctors project. Photo: Peter Rae

"I told mum that white bread has sugar in it, and she didn't know that. Now she is buying the one with seeds in it," said eight-year-old Wilson Ware, who is learning to be a Dhalayi (child) doctor at St Joseph's Primary School in Kempsey.

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