Tackling ear infections in remote indigenous regions of Australia - a podcast by Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Overcrowding, lack of running water, poor hygiene, nutrition, lack of access to medical care – all are symptoms of acute poverty into which Aboriginal children are born in remote corners of Australia. And they're the reasons why indigenous children have the highest rates of middle ear infection in the world.For forty years Paediatric Otolaryngologist Dr Harvey Coates has spent up to several weeks each year providing treatment to the most vulnerable of Australian children, and continues to lead the charge of better health outcomes for children and ear disease. Dr Coates was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2005 for his work and research in paediatric otolaryngology and ear disease in Aboriginal children.

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