A teenager who died of meningococcus after attending the Spilled Milk music festival in Canberra has saved five lives as an organ donor. New South Wales Health announced on monday Ally Behan, 18, was the third person to die in the state this year from the disease. After returning from the festival on November 26 … Read more
Children as young as 13 continue to be admitted to the Canberra Hospital Adult Mental Health Unit because the opening of a dedicated acute case facility for young people was delayed until 2023. Key points: Canberra’s only adolescent mental health center opens in 2023, while children up to the age of 13 are admitted to … Read more
A former senior health official has admitted that staff should have heeded the pleas for help from the family of a young Canberra woman before her suicide. Key points: Brontë Haskins, 23, committed suicide in 2020 The coroner investigates why the police and health workers did not follow up on a request to help her … Read more