Two Proserpine Hospital clinicians who share the same life changing organ transplant experience are urging people to pull on their favourite jersey and start the conversation about organ and tissue registration this Jersey Day. Senior registrar Dr Emma Hinschen and registered nurse Jolene Courtenay grew up on opposite sides of the world – the Hunter… [Read More]

Imagine being told you require emergency surgery to save your right foot from amputation after simply catching your ankle on the screen door. This was Glenda Viti’s reality in December 2020 after she was referred to the Mackay Base Hospital Wound Clinic for chronic wound care. Glenda was diagnosed with type two diabetes in August… [Read More]

More than one million Australians have communication difficulties that affects a person’s ability to understand and be understood by others. Speech Pathology Week is an opportunity to highlight the importance of communication access and how speech pathologists work with people in our communities every day to help them communicate with confidence. Mackay HHS speech pathologists… [Read More]

Shane Witherspoon’s recollection of 17 August 2019 is blurry. It was the day before his 57th birthday and he was at home in Moranbah when he started feeling unwell. At the time he didn’t know it, but Shane was having a stroke. A deadly clot had formed in the left-side of his brain starving it… [Read More]

A stranger’s generosity in 2012 will forever be remembered by Deb Donnelly and her family as a life-changing gift.  The gift came in the form a donated kidney, following a diagnosis from her doctor in 2003 that her body was going in to renal failure at the age of 46.   Deb would go on… [Read More]