The Clermont community is set to benefit from a $435,000 boost to medical services thanks to Glencore’s Clermont4Doctors initiative.
The five-year program, which launches this July, aims to help address the townships chronic lack of medical practitioners by assisting new doctors, and their families, to settle in the area.
Clermont4Doctors Project Coordinator, Sandy Frost, said the program would help to provide better access to services and improve community health and wellbeing as a result.
“Clermont4Doctors is a way for the community to come together to attract and retain doctors, not only with financial incentives by really making them feel a part of what makes Clermont so special,” Sandy said.
“Glencore has provided the funding for packages of social and other support services designed to assist new doctors to more easily make the move to Clermont.”
The program draws on a successful pilot in the NSW regional town of Mudgee, the main township associated with Glencore’s Ulan Coal complex.
In partnership with the community and local medical centres, Glencore put together a five-year program that successfully brought 11 new doctors to the town.
“Like Mudgee, there is a real need to boost Clermont’s existing medical services and provide better access to healthcare for our community,” Clermont’s Operations Manager, Mick Charles, said.
“We’ve committed $435,000 to support Clermont4Doctors and we are proud to be launching the program this month.”
Clermont4Doctors will officially launch on Saturday 18th July at an event held at Theresa Creek Dam.
A prelaunch competition launched on Monday 6th July. Community members are asked to find Dr. Gerome, the roaming gnome, and take a selfie with him for the chance to win $200 worth of vouchers from local businesses. The gnome will be hidden at seven different locations around Clermont.
