PHOTO: Macquare Home Stay Dubbo – home to thousands of patients undergoing health care from around the region – image MHS website
Macquarie Home Stay Dubbo have given a shout out to local farmers in the broader region to donate grain this harvest season, in the hope of reducing debt on the new CWA guesthouse to allow more rural patients to stay.
Macquarie Home Stay (pictured below), which is expected to house over 9000 patients and helpers in 2025, is a home away from home for many rural people visiting Dubbo for medical care. The facility provides affordable, low-cost accommodation for patients and their partner before, during and post treatment.
Following a very successful wool drive, in previous years, the committee decided on a grain drive whereby farmers use a supplied National Grower Register (NGR) number to allocate a percentage of grain to be gifted to the organisation…