Health
Dayannah has a rare heart condition that could impact thousands of Indigenous Australians – SBS News
Rheumatic heart disease, or RHD, threatens 5,000 lives in Australia, and health experts warn cases could double in the next decade. A new outreach program is now…
Dayannah Baker-Barlow appears to be a typical 16-year-old studying at a secondary college in northern NSW.
But a potentially fatal disease has changed her life. She can no longer play sport or run down the school corridors with her classmates.
The Gamilaraay teenager has rheumatic heart disease, or RHD.
It makes me feel sick, she told SBS News at a medical clinic in the farming town of Moree. I get very breathless.
Its a very cruel, hard and terrible thing to get, her mother Hannah Barlow said….
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