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COVID-19’s hidden mental health toll – Noosa News
Queensland Ambulance Service figures for the first half of this year show the shock impact of COVID-19 in the Far North.
PARAMEDIC call-outs to mental health cases in the Far North have jumped by a staggering 28 per cent this year as the horror fallout of COVID lockdown is felt.
Police, and even firefighters, are also reporting a disturbing spike with about 12 calls a day coming in to local police, including serious self-harm cases.
The shock statistics have prompted local Queensland Ambulance Service boss Assistant Commissioner Michelle Baxter to call for the restart of a co-responder project, which sends a men…
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