Nursing director tells of Bundaberg Hospital evacuation

Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service district director of nursing and midwifery services Debbie Carroll and her team of colleagues were faced with evacuating an entire hospital on January 29. In the lead up to the series of natural disasters that unfolded, the health service first held a planning discussion on January 25, amid dire weather warnings for the weekend.  In the wake of a series of devastating tornadoes and as rising flood waters threatened sewerage, power and water quality, the Bundaberg Hospital evacuated 131 patients, including 10 critical patients on January 29, 2013.

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