Refugee Health Service
Refugee Health ClinicsSouthern health has two multidisciplinary clinic to meet the Infectious Diseases, maternal and child health and psychiatric needs of the refugee population in the Greater Dandenong area. Clinic objectives are improved health outcomes close follow up and treatment of communicable and psychiatric disease and to divert chronic and complex care from hospital inpatient admissions.
There is a hospital-based Refugee Health Service based in the Dandenong Hospital outpatients precinct, and a community centre based service at the Doveton Community Health Centre. Both clinics run on Mondays between 1.30 - 5.30pm.
Dandenong Hospital Refugee Clinic
Monash Infectious Diseases Physicians
Paediatrician
- Dr Danni Bao
Psychiatry Fellow
Refugee Health Nurses
- Suzanne Willey
- Ellen Clarke
- Bunmi Agebayo
- Christopher Yugusuk
General Practitioners
- Dr Kelvin Lau
- Dr Gowri Ratnavelar
- Bernadette Dunlop
No charge for Medicare card holders and Asylum seekers
Referrals
GPs are requested to refer via fax to 03 9554 8554 using the Victorian Statewide Referral Form housed in most clinical software.
