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Premium Content Subscriber only Five swimmers were treated for irukandji stings in the Whitsundays over the Easter long weekend including a teen boy, who was taken to Mackay Base Hospital. The 17 year old had been swimming at Whitehaven Beach when he was stung about 4.40pm on Saturday. A 17-year-old boy was swimming at Whitehaven Beach on Saturday, April 3 when he was stung by an irukandji. It is understood he had only been in the water for minutes before he it occurred. VMR Whitsunday, with two paramedics on board, met up with another vessel named Settlement carrying the injured teen at Na...

Major crashes: A woman was taken to Mackay Base Hospital in a stable condition for observation following a single-vehicle rollover on the Bruce Highway at Pindi Pindi about 10.42pm Saturday. In a separate incident, two people were taken to Mackay Base Hospital in stable conditions following a crash in West Mackay about 5.45pm Saturday. Witnesses reported the crash involving two cars occurred at the intersection of Donaldson and MacKenzie Streets. A first responder received minor injuries. Four people from the first incident involving a white hatch back also received only minor injuries ...

Premium Content Subscriber only UPDATE 1PM SUN: RACQ CQ Rescue has airlifted a first responder to Mackay Base Hospital after two consecutive accidents on Bowen Developmental Road on Saturday afternoon. The Mackay-based rescue helicopter was already en route to Moranbah to transfer a patient to hospital when it was re-tasked to a serious single vehicle accident involving five occupants near Belyando Crossing about 2.30pm. An RACQ CQ Rescue spokeswoman said two rescue helicopters, including the Rescue 512 crew from Townsville, were tasked to the accident scene because of the number of people ...

Premium Content Subscriber only An elderly woman suffered internal injuries when she was trampled by a cow on a property west of Moranbah. Paramedics were called to the property at Pasha about 12.45pm with reports the woman, aged in her 70s, had been struck by the beast. Moranbah Queensland Ambulance Service crews stabilised the woman at the scene before the RACQ CQ Rescue chopper was deployed. She suffered injuries to her chest, hip and pelvis, and was flown to Mackay Base Hospital. A QAS spokeswoman said the woman was in a stable condition. mackay base hospital

Premium Content Subscriber only Exactly a year ago Mackay faced one of its biggest challenges since war time as the first confirmed COVID-19 case spread fear through the community. On March 16 2020, news broke that a UK tourist had defied health orders and flown to Hamilton Island after being diagnosed with COVID-19 in Sydney. The woman was found on a Hamilton Island beach after NSW Health authorities alerted their Queensland counterparts. She was isolated on the island and transferred to Mackay Base Hospital. It is understood the woman's tourist visa was later cancelled and she was slap...