Dubbo Photo News was recently contacted by a former local who – on a recent return to the region – suffered a medical emergency. Below, is his story...

“My name is Mark OBrien, I recently had my life saved by the people at Dubbo Base Hospital. Too often these institutions are ridiculed and rubbished for primarily nonsensical, unfounded reasons, but I just want to make a public ‘thank you’ to those who do much, for so many, in western NSW.

Not having lived in the region for some 24 years, the last time I required