They would rather go to the AMS but they wouldn't go the hospital. Similarly Jimmy Njanji's poorly controlled diabetes was contributed to by a reluctance to seek medical attention through fear and unease of hospital. Very frightened of hospitals. Yes, there is a high rate. It is clear that hospital may often be an alien and threatening environment.
All wards are above ground level severely limiting patient access to the outside.
It does not lend itself to accommodating the presence of family members. Q. I remember in Darwin and the old Darwin Hospital had big wide wooden verandahs all around it. It was just a single storey building with big lawns in the middle and all the Aboriginal families could come in and sit on the lawn and talk to the patients. It was a kind of natural environment. Then they built a huge hospital there modelled on the Woden Valley Hospital in Canberra, all air-conditioned and lifts everywhere, and it's made the visiting very difficult, especially for tribal people, who they've never been in a lift or never been in the airconditioning, to come and see their people.