Karratha Community Stakeholder Meeting: NEARER SCAN Study for detecting Rheumatic Heart Disease
Karratha Health Hub Karratha City Shopping Centre, Karratha, WA, AustraliaYou are warmly invited to attend a Community Stakeholder Meeting on Thursday 27th July 2023, to yarn about a study being implemented in Karratha and Roebourne called NEARER SCAN - a project to improve how we detect Rheumatic Heart Disease in at-risk children and pregnant women, through non-expert heart ultrasound (‘echo’) screening. Please see attached poster and project overview for your reference. NEARER SCAN Rheumatic Heart Disease Project Background Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is a common cause of heart disease (Burlada Yirriri) in children (Gubiyarri/Manggurla) and young adults (Yangubala) in remote communities in Western Australia (Ngurra Warndurala) People don’t always...







