‘Housing design is killing people’: Doctor’s plan to fight rheumatic heart disease

After 20 years as a specialist in the territory, Dr Simon Quilty believes proper housing is the most-needed treatment.

Want to fix the shameful rates of rheumatic heart disease in the NT?

Don’t bother with a vaccine, Dr Simon Quilty says.

At least until you have done something about housing.

Dr Quilty is a founding member of a project to build homes that are safer and cheaper than government houses.