Mount Isa Indigenous health agency Gidgee Healing had an audience with royalty on Tuesday.
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In honour of International Nurses Day the Queen and other members of the royal family spoke to nurses across the world.
Her Majesty was joined by the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Royal, the Countess of Wessex and Princess Alexandra who took part in the tributes.to frontline health heroes across the UK and Commonwealth.
Then Sophie Countess of Wessex interviewed health professionals from across the world including India, Malawi, Cyprus, the Bahamas and Sierra Leone, as well as three staff at Gidgee Healing in Mount Isa.
Gidgee Healing CEO Renee Blackman, Gidgee Healing Nurse Tahnia-Maree Ah Kit and Registered Nurse with NWHHS Lee West were included in the Video call with Prince Charles, Camilla Duchess Cornwall, Princess Anne, Prince William and Kate Middleton and Princess Alexandra.
Each of the ladies were asked questions and thanked for their work from members of the Royal family.
Tahnia Ah-Kit and Leeona West had their big moment talking to the Royal Family about COVID-19.
They said emergency services had set up protocols and guidelines to deal with the pandemic.
When Sophie said the world was grateful, they replied "We are feeling the love".
Prince Charles thanked nurses for their "diligence" and "courage" while Camilla said: "Extraordinary times call for extraordinary people."
At the beginning of the video, the Queen is heard speaking to Professor Kathleen McCourt, president of the Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation.
The Queen says: "This is rather an important day... because obviously they've [nurses] had a very important part to play recently."
It was the International Council of Nurses that invited Gidgee Healing to the broadcast.
"We were very much surprised to be invited, we didn't know the royals would be involved," Ms Blackman said.
"We were so nervous we thought the call was the day before and got up at midnight, but that's okay we had a good dummy run!"
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Derek Barry
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.
