Queensland Outback telehealth numbers boom due to pandemic

Derek Barry
Updated June 17 2020 - 3:24pm, first published June 1 2020 - 10:20am
Specialist service: cancer patients and the elderly can soon access telehealth care. Photo: Mario Borg
Specialist service: cancer patients and the elderly can soon access telehealth care. Photo: Mario Borg

Western Queensland is experiencing a boom in telehealth care with soaring numbers of patients now accessing medical support via telephone and video.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

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.

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