New Bourke health clinic set to become reality

Site Manager for construction company BARPA, Mark Pullen, with BACHS Pract ice Manager Chelsea Simmonds and BACHS CEO Just ine Williams at the const ruct ion site on the corner of Mitchell and Tarcoon Streets. Photo: Ian Cole

Story: Kristin Murdock – kmurdock@outbackradio.com.au

A project around five years in the making will reach a major milestone this week when the first sod is turned for a new purpose-built clinic for Bourke Aboriginal Corporation Health Service (BACHS).

A sod-turning ceremony will be held on Friday, October 16, from 10am to 12pm, marking the beginning of construction of a facility designed to provide more space, improved facilities, and opportunities to expand health services for the Bourke community.

Acting CEO Justine Williams said planning for the new clinic, including funding applications, had been underway for about five years.

The organisation has outgrown its existing clinic in Oxley Street, creating the need for a facility better suited to both its current work and future health needs.[…]

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