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03 September 2026
Rare double delight: Two sets of twins born across different days at Cairns Hospital
Two Far North Queensland women each welcomed twins with different birth dates during an extraordinary four-day stretch at Cairns Hospital, where nine sets of twins arrived in August alone.
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27 August 2026
New perinatal mental health service to launch in Cairns
An innovative new service will allow Cairns women experiencing severe perinatal mental health illness to receive hospital-level care from their own homes.
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10 December 2025
When Cairns Hospital patients become reluctant long term ‘residents’
Why are some patients staying for more than a year in hospital? Cairns and Hinterland Hospital and Health Service chief executive Leena Singh explains the issue, and what we are doing to solve it.
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