Articles tagged: hospital
Eleven hospitalised in crash
A man has been airlifted to Melbourne while 10 others have received emergency treatment following a head-on collision along a section of the Great Ocean Road at Gellibrand Lower.
Collision inspires city performance
Sometimes you have to laugh through the pain, and few people seem to know that better than Colac primary school teacher and playwright Phil Gray.
Clinical trial targets wheezing
Colac toddler Chester Williamson’s wheezing can become so severe that he has to be hospitalised. But now, the two-year-old is part of a major medical trial that could help prevent young people like him from needing urgent care.
Hospital converting house
Apollo Bay’s health service is planning to free up patient rooms in its hospital by moving corporate staff from the main building to a neighbouring house that would be converted into an office.
Contribution benefits centre
A Camperdown business owner has donated $5500 to support Colac Area Health’s Frank Minchinton Centre.
Health service merger discussions continue
The State Government says decisions around merging or restructuring health services have not been made and discussions are ongoing.
No visitors at care centres
Hospitals and care facilities have again closed to visitors as part of the latest COVID-19 state lockdown.
Return to football drives Roo during recovery
South Colac footballer Luke Burnett says he feared he would never play football again during a month-long stay in hospital earlier this year.
Teammates visit wounded Tiger
Simpson netballers made sure their first point of call was to hospital after Saturday’s grand final win to hand a premiership medal to their wounded teammate.
