Narromine Star 15.09.2022

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TGO’s Casey Martin wins national mining award

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Hospital slit lamp a game changer for eye injuries By SHARON BONTHUYS

By SHARON BONTHUYS CASEY Martin, an underground bogger operator with Tomingley Gold Operations (TGO), won the Thiess Outstanding Australian Tradeswoman, Operator or Technician Award at the BHP 2022 Women in Resources National Awards last week. Casey was recognised for her outstanding professional capability and support for women’s career advancement in the mining and resources sector at a gala event staged by the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra on September 6. The award comes just three months after Casey took out the NSW award in the same category. Casey’s latest award was one of five categories of national awards to be presented on the night, celebrating the diversity and contributions that women bring to the mining and resources sector. The other awards included Women in Resources Technical Innovation (Emily Jaques), Gender Diversity Champion in Australian Resources (Michelle Wetherell), Exceptional Young Woman in Australian Resources (Elle Farris), and Exceptional Woman in Australian Resources (Lydia Gentle OAM). Continued page 4

A new piece of equipment donated to the Narromine Health Service is set to be a game changer in the treatment of eye injuries for residents in communities across the central west. A ‘slit lamp’ arrived at the hospital at the end of August, made possible through the fundraising efforts of the Narromine Hospital Auxiliary. It is believed to be the only specialist eye examination equipment of its kind to be found at a rural hospital for hundreds of kilometres. The slit lamp is a critical diagnostic tool that enables the general practitioners (GPs)/ visiting medical officers (VMOs) at Narromine Health Service to examine patients on site who present with foreign bodies in their eyes, and other eye issues. This will save patients from having to travel to Dubbo to seek help from Dubbo Base Hospital or an optometrist, thereby removing an additional burden from those facilities needing to treat out-ofarea patients with eye issues. It’s a game changer, according to Narromine GP/VMO Dr Andy Caldin, who said he believed Narromine’s slit lamp will help eye injury patients presenting from many communities across the region. Smaller health facilities further west, such as Trangie,

Dr Andy Caldin in the new eye treatment room at Narromine Health Service. PHOTOS: NARROMINE STAR. Tottenham and Warren, for example, do not have this equipment and until now, central west patients have had to be referred to Dubbo for ex-

amination and treatment. “I’ve told the Virtual Rural Generalist Service (VRGS) that we have a slit lamp at Narromine and patients fur-

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ther west can come here to be reviewed,” Dr Caldin said. Continued page 3


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