As we evolved, we found that there were also just a lot of children out in the suburbs who were from
remote communities, who were in [Darwin] because parents were accessing
dialysis, or legal
services, or were in rehabilitation programs, or who'd just moved into town to be with other family members.»
The NPY Women's Council, which employs the Ngangkari (the only such program in Australia), has long campaigned for more
dialysis services in
remote communities, arguing that having to go such large distances for treatment was «doubly cruel» and «likely to make end stage kidney failure even more distressing and upsetting».