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Frontline responders are more than twice as likely to be suicidal than other adults.
Their exposure to traumatic and graphic scenes in their roles as paramedics, police officers, firefighters, electrical workers, doctors, nurses and more can be debilitating.
A BeyondBlue survey of more than 21,000 first responders found more than one in four experienced probable post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition impacting their lives and that of their families.
Plans that would make Mackay a revolutionary health and wellness hub for veterans and first responders to treat post-traumatic stress are progressing through a partnership with PTSD Frontline and ReNew Mackay, a locally-led private consortium.