Dr Siva Sivanujan has notched up more than 850 aeromedical missions in 14 years in Mackay on board RACQ CQ Rescue. In addition to working in the Base Hospital’s Emergency Department as a Senior Medical Officer he works as a Critical Care Doctor with RACQ LifeFlight Rescue which provides doctors for the RACQ CQ Rescue… [Read More]

Antimicrobial Awareness Week is an annual global event drawing attention to the effective use of antimicrobials in patient care, and in the prevention and containment of antimicrobial resistance. Acting Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist Angela Wright said antibiotics are precious and whenever they must be used, antibiotics must be used with care. “Misusing antibiotics can promote resistance,… [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 to… [Read More]

It may be from the chicken that’s been left out to defrost or a cutting board that hasn’t been washed but symptoms of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea generally mean one thing – gastroenteritis. This Australian Food Safety Week (14-21 November 2020), team leader environmental health Andrew Jones is reminding people of safe food… [Read More]

Mackay Base Hospital respiratory clinical nurse Lorna Reddy is using World COPD Day (November 18) to encourage people living with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to reach out and connect with the Mackay HHS Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program. “COPD is a common lung condition impacting both men and women with around one in seven Australians aged… [Read More]