Please attribute to Mackay HHS Executive Director of COVID-19 Julie Rampton Mackay HHS has 210 new positive COVID-19 cases to make a total of 949 active cases throughout the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday local government areas. Of these seven are in the COVID-19 Ward at Mackay Base Hospital, 53 are in Mackay Base Hospital Virtual… [Read More]

Lenore Borg was awash with smiles when she received her recognition for 50 years of service at Mackay Base Hospital. The supervisor of linen services still remembers her first day on 25 August 1971. She was just out of school and only 15 years old. “My uncle worked here, and they were looking for staff,… [Read More]

Eleven months into his medical internship Dr Vishavjit Gill has been named junior researcher of the year at the prestigious Mackay HHS Excellence in Leadership, Training and Research Awards. To top it off the rising star took out the MIRI Poster for Research prize, alongside kidney specialist Dr Danielle Wu, for their clinical audit into… [Read More]

Please attribute to Mackay HHS COVID-19 Executive Director Julie Rampton Mackay HHS has 174 new positive COVID-19 cases to make a total of 739 active cases throughout the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday local government areas. Of these two are in the COVID-19 Ward at Mackay Base Hospital, 56 are in Mackay Base Hospital Virtual Ward… [Read More]

Please attribute to Mackay HHS Acting Chief Executive Ms Terry Johnson Mackay HHS has 136 new positive COVID-19 cases to make a total of 565 active cases throughout the Mackay, Isaac and Whitsunday local government areas. Of these two are in the COVID-19 Ward at Mackay Base Hospital, 57 are in Mackay Base Hospital Virtual… [Read More]