Take Heart

Bo Remenyi:
These children were born completely healthy with normal heart function. They started life the same way as everybody else and yet they acquired this disease and their heart gets permanently damaged. But, rheumatic heart disease is completely preventable and yet so many children suffer from it. I think that's the saddest part.

Bo Remenyi:
It's really a disease that we should be able to prevent yet it's still here with us and most importantly if we had a similar outbreak of measles or meningitis or even Ebola around the world that would make the headlines in the news whilst this is not something the general public is aware of.

Lance O'Sullivan:
It impacts on the most vulnerable people in our community: young, and the consequences and complications of this are in my mind disastrous.

Narrator:
Why, then, do Australia's first people have amongst the highest rates of a preventable disease in the world?

Narrator:
Ultimately, if we want to close the gap and authentically lay claim to an equal society - then we must view this as everyone's problem.