Centre for eating disorders shut amid surge in cases

The Butterfly Foundation’s new Wandi Nerida facility was built using a $6 million federal government grant but does not have the $2.5 million it needs to staff the centre.Nearly a million Australians suffer from eating disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating.And during the pandemic, the number of people contacting The Butterfly Foundation’s support line and webchat service for help had soared by 50 per cent during COVID.Girls and boys as young a seven were developing the…



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