Staffers reveal helplessness after nurse brutally bashed A nurse has suffered a prolonged violent assault in a mental health unit at a hospital - now other staff are revealing their helplessness.
Crime by Paul Weston and Brianna Morris-Grant 15th May 2021 7:02 AM
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Subscriber only A NURSE had her hair pulled and was punched repeatedly in a prolonged attack by a patient in a mental health unit at the Gold Coast University Hospital. Another nurse in her 60s came to her aid but was kicked in the head. A male patient eventually stepped in. The bashing happened in front of younger colleagues who felt helpless and has sparked calls for added security.
The ramping crisis in Queensland hospitals has turned to tragedy with a person reportedly dying on the Gold Coast.
The state opposition revealed in parliament on Wednesday that a person on the Gold Coast waited more than two hours for an ambulance despite suffering from life-threatening sepsis.
According to information provided by paramedics to Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates, the person died 20 minutes after arriving at Gold Coast University Hospital.
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“Sepsis is a life-threatening organ failure so it’s a primary cause of death from infection and the mortality rate is about 40 per cent,” Ms Bates said.
Kerikeri woman Monika Welch seriously ill and stuck in Australia
12 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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Kerikeri woman Monika Welch - seen here at Gold Coast University Hospital - has helped many people, but now she s the one in need of a hand. Photo / supplied
Kerikeri woman Monika Welch - seen here at Gold Coast University Hospital - has helped many people, but now she s the one in need of a hand. Photo / supplied
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A Northland woman who has spent more than a decade helping others has now found herself at the receiving end of community help after falling seriously ill across the Tasman.
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Police responding to fatal traffic crash at Coombabah
A 90-year-old woman from Paradise Point has passed away in hospital this morning following a serious traffic crash at Coombabah yesterday.
Around 11.10am two vehicles collided at the intersection of Hansford Road and Oxley Drive.
An 85-year-old male driver of one of the vehicles and his 87-year-old female passenger were transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital with minor injuries.
The 90-year-old woman who was the driver and sole occupant of the second vehicle was also transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital but her condition deteriorated overnight and she passed away this morning.
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Subscriber only A Queensland court has considered the first case of a will signed under special COVID-19 legislation, allowing people in hospital to have wills witnessed by audio visual link. Stan Sheehan, who died, aged 70, at Gold Coast University Hospital on December 1, attempted to execute a will from his hospital bed a month earlier, but failed to sign one page. Although wills made under normal circumstances do not have to be signed on every page, that was required under COVID-19 Emergency Response legislation for wills. It was introduced during the pandemic, because of the necessity for people in hospital to be able to make a will, when they might be barred from having close personal contact with witnesses.