Bawrunga Aboriginal Medical Service (BAMS), is an Indigenous owned and managed not-for-profit community organisation. BAMS was established in Bowraville NSW in 1999, to address the need for affordable, accessible, and high quality health and medical services in the Nambucca Valley.
BAMS’ core social goal of fulfilling the unmet health and medical needs of Indigenous communities is achieved through their operation of commercial medical clinics tailored to Indigenous needs. These clinics offer bulk billing General Practitioner (GP) services to the whole community (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people).
BAMS now operates three clinics on the Mid North Coast of NSW, three clinics in the NSW Western Region and one clinic in the Sydney western suburbs, offering local communities the only autonomous Indigenous Health managed Medical Service in Australia which incorporates a full-time, Bulk billing Medical centre.
The primary focus of BAMS is on preventative health education and chronic disease management, addressing early childhood nutrition and parenting, acute health issues, diet, substance abuse, healthy lifestyles and youth related issues. Using primary healthcare and allied resources as fundamental tools to address and resolve drug, alcohol and violence as social issues. In addition to the clinics, BAMS supports a range of Indigenous specific social and preventative community programs and enterprise development.
Visiting Doctor – Dr Prasad
We are pleased to announce Dr Lakshman Prasad will be visiting the Nambucca Heads clinic. Dr Prasad works as a dedicated senior and experienced Doctor working as a Senior Injury Management Consultant.
Read more about Dr Prasad
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Providing clinical services to over 13,500 patients, Bawrunga is a fully integrated medical service, with 6 full-time doctors and one part-time doctor, as well as 28 staff and volunteers. Bawrunga is continuing in the retention for future doctors to work in our Organisation.
Bawrunga is proud to announce after many years of working towards securing our own infrastructure has now purchase premises at 1 Marshall Way Nambucca Heads this is major achievement due to the fact no Government funding either from State or Federal was given to Bawrunga.
BAMS after many years of working towards securing our own infrastructure was able to purchase premises at 1 Marshall Way Nambucca Heads. This is a major achievement for an Aboriginal Organisation (BAMS), due to the fact that no Government funding was given to Bawrunga to assist in the establishment of the Medical Services.
For further details about the medical services offered by BAMS, visit the Our Work page.
