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Rider suffers serious leg injury after bike crash into tree

UPDATE: The RACQ-CQ Rescue chopper was called to help because of the man’s location.

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Man seriously injured in buggy rollover

Paramedics also took a woman to Mackay Base Hospital after a separate car rollover overnight.

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JUST IN: COVID fragments found in Mackay wastewater

‘A positive sewage result means that someone who has been infected was shedding the virus’

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'No alarm in this': Mayor's message to community


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Record number of intern doctors to boost region's services


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A record intake of intern doctors will rotate through the Mackay Hospital and Health Service as they set out on their respective careers and medical fields.
The 46 new interns will be hosted at Mackay Base Hospital with rotations through Proserpine, Bowen and Mater hospitals over the next 12 months.
It is an exciting time for Dr Clarise Sornachalam who is following in her father and brother’s footsteps in medicine.
“My dad is a doctor – an occupation physician – and we moved to Mackay when I was five because of his work,” Dr Sornachalam said.
“My brother decided to go into medicine and studied through JCU and worked at the Base.

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The cause of 550+ gastro cases across Mackay region

Did you make it through 2020 without catching a stomach bug? Hospital service identifies cause of gastro across Mackay, Isaac, Whitsunday

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Welcome little one: Meet Mackay's first baby for 2021


They returned to hospital where Mrs Aldave learned she was now eight centimetres dilated.
Mr Aldave said they had been told to expect about one centimetre dilation every two hours and thought Ahrabella would be born about "midnight or early in the morning".
But Mrs Aldave laughed she had been standing by her hospital bed when she was told the baby was on its way.
"(She) just popped out," Mrs Aldave said.
"So quick."
Ahrabella was born at 2.30pm on Friday, and now new big sister Ahxeia cannot wait to get her home.
Ahrabella Aldave arrived at 2.30pm on January 1, 2021 weighing 2980 grams and was the first baby born in Mackay in the new year. She was 49.5cm long and her head circumference was 33.5cm.

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