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Mildura needs support for equitable healthcare
Michelle supported: enough ignoring Mildura - Fix our Hospital CrisisI have four children, that require serious medical assistance and will their whole life , I've lived other places and I've never seen a poorer excuse for a hospital then Mildura's we need better!!!
Emilee supported: enough ignoring Mildura - Fix our Hospital CrisisI was one of the people once that couldn't access care in moranbah, heavily pregnant, couldn't receive hospital care, couldn't receive gp care, known rule, you can't have nurofen when pregnant, my ear drum burst because I couldn't obtain antibiotics. The pain was worse then child birth! Yet my husband and I pay hundreds of thousands in tax and high Medicare levels. Pathetic.
Brooke supported: Improve Healthcare Access in Moranbah – A Call for ActionMy granddaughter has been diagnosed at just 5 years of age. We need support.
Maria supported: Support Safe Dining for People with Coeliac Disease in AustraliaKnowing just how difficult it is at this time in human history for all of us to cope with the extra stresses and challenges that life throws at us in this post-modern world, I still firmly believe that those who have the power, the authority and the will to make life bearable for the sick and their loved ones in the community will soon receive their very great reward as the Lord says to each of them on Judgement Day: "Well done, good and faithful servant; I was sick, and you took care of me." In this case, supporting safe dining for people with coeliac disease in Australia is a good example.
Steven supported: Support Safe Dining for People with Coeliac Disease in AustraliaFor too long access to necessary medications for menopausal women has been withheld, it is 2025! Androfeme should be on the PBS so ALL women can afford to take it.
Julieann supported: Subsidise Testosterone Replacement for WomenTestosterone for women is an important part of the equation to feeling better and having a greater quality of life for many women and needs to be on the PBS to make it affordable as women will likely be on it for the rest of their lives.
Audrey supported: Subsidise Testosterone Replacement for WomenTruly life-changing. Only wish it had been prescribed much earlier, after my treatment-induced menopause at 34, rather than more than a decade later. I hope this can be accessible to women when clinically needed, not just when it is financially possible. Education of it's availability to GP's too would be helpful.
Kirsten supported: Subsidise Testosterone Replacement for WomenTaking testosterone as part of my HRT, but it’s costing too much. It needs to be on PBS. Women are suffering during perimenopause and menopause
Katia supported: Subsidise Testosterone Replacement for WomenMy GP suggested that I get my Testosterone levels tested as despite being on Estrogen and Progesterone, my suffering was still accute.
It was very low so with much excitement HE wrote me a prescription assuring me that this essential hormone could be the missing tool that I needed in my HRT tool kit.
That excitement quickly vaporised into first, despair then Hulk like anger as the pharmacist told me it was going to cost me $108 to fill the script. I live in Victoria for context. Seriously!
Then I asked the question, "is Testosterone for men listed on the PBS,". Well we all know the answer to that one.
As a 52 year old, single woman, already struggling on a Disability Support Pension and paying an extortionent amount of private rent which equates to three quarters of my pension a fortnight, this is put simply, not even a remote possibility if I want to eat and keep my safe haven which is my home.
When other essential hormone therapies were listed on the PBS including my estrogen gel, I had hope in the Government that FINALLY, FINALLY they were starting to take women's health seriously.
Not adding female Testosterone to the PBS, when it is widely known now and accepted in the medical world, that the majority of women need all THREE hormones to stop SUFFERING because for me I AM SUFFERING, I AM STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY EACH AND EVERY DAY, AND I AM SO TIRED.
Why as women do we continually have to fight to be heard, especially when it comes to healthcare in this country.
This much needed hormone is the ONLY Testosterone in the world specifically made for women and I am so lucky to live in the country who developed it. I am not lucky however, because a group of misogynistic privileged men in some boardroom, somewhere, decided that women's health is not as important as men's, but patted themselves on back by throwing us a few bones to shut us up by listed just three other essential hormone medications to the PBS. This is not good enough. Women deserve better.
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