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Cairns Local News
Friday, Sept 25, 2020
Making way for emergency vehicles YOU know your road rules, and now’s your chance to prove it. A fire engine displaying flashing blue and red lights and sounding its alarm is approaching traffic. Is the green car allowed to cross over onto the wrong side of the road to give way to the emergency vehicle?
We all face this situation most weeks here in Cairns. There’s a good chance our emergency vehicles are on their way to save someone’s life, so you’re allowed to drive onto the wrong side of the road to get out of their way and speed up their journey. Giving way to emergency
vehicles should always be done with the utmost care. Make sure you’re looking after your own safety (and everyone else’s on the road) first. Watch out for police, fire and ambulance vehicles by being alert to your surroundings, looking ahead and checking your mirrors regularly
Additional funds to help those facing surgery Facing surgery can be a daunting time for anyone. How long will I be off work for? Will I be in pain after surgery? What happens with…? So many questions and for many it can become information overload. Cairns Hinterland Hospital Health Service (CHHHS) for the past five years has funnelled many of the patients requiring elective surgery through a newly established Multidisciplinary Preadmission Clinic. The recent announcement by the Queensland Government of major funding for the construction and commissioning
of a permanent home for the Clinic is welcome news for patients and clinicians alike. Since 2015 the Clinic has assessed and prepared patients for their elective surgery. Combining the services of Anaesthetics, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy as well as surgical departments this nurse-led clinic has streamlined the preparation for surgery for thousands of patients each year. Operating across several locations this new clinic will be combined into a central location in B-Block creating
increased surgical and procedural activity as well as offering increased telehealth appointment for patients throughout the regional and further north. Marie Kelly, CHHHS acting executive director of medical services described the Clinic as a one-stop shop, allowing patients needing elective surgery or related procedures to be assessed by clinicians from several services, in a central location via face-to-face or telehealth video link. The new clinic is expected to open in 2021.
Scrunch or fold? A universal question needing answers WAYNE’S WORLD
WELCOME
back to Wayne’s World – my very distinctive view on all matters of grave importance and essential in ensuring our universe continues to function and thrive. Now, here is a dirty, grubby subject, that like it or not, we all face every day. Toilet paper – now not just one discussion piece, not two but three very low down topics we need to flush out in greater detail. First is the much argued
topic of how the dunny roll is placed on the wall holder. Now do you have the roll where it is easily ripped over the top or heaven forbid fumbled out of sight and underneath. Second is how many sheets do you use for one wipe. Now I am told that the standard is five. But paint me purple, I find this number dangerously close to finger dipping so for me it is eight. Third and not the least important is how the package
is delivered. Do you quickly scrunch it up swipe and release or do you delicately fold it up and do the dainty wipe or are you the hand wrapper for use of both sides and squirm off the hand to flush. Well here’s hoping ya chooks don’t turn into emus and kick your dunny door down. See you next week for some more earth-shattering insights to life. Wayne.
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