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Hospital staff seek accommodation away from family
"Hospitals being completely overwhelmed means that people die of heart attacks, strokes."
"Hospitals being completely overwhelmed means that people die of heart attacks, strokes."
Community clinics are currently being set up, while CMDHB is changing its visitor policy.
There is still no community spread of the virus, a DHB chief executive says.
Hospital bosses say more and more of those outside the region are accessing services.
Auckland hospitals treating more than one stabbing victim every day.
Face shields and yellow gowns are what's stopping doctors being infected with Covid-19.
The handling of a 2015 suspected Ebola case reveals how such facilities can be used.
"I was within 10 rows...a plane is a breeding ground for things."
Waikato DHB has refused to release a review into the situation.
Counties Manukau DHB has raised the threshold for breast cancer treatment.
"I believe these small details, were either omitted, ignored or not taken seriously."
'There's definitely a lot of total ignorance out there with regards to this virus.'
Most DHBs have listed major infrastructure problems as a risk to patients and staff.
COMMENT: ADHB has one big problem - it is operating at a substantial "loss".
It's the one thing we can offer family members at a time of crisis, doctor says.
DHB chief executives warned patients could come to harm, documents reveal.
Auckland's mortuary has been prepared to receive all bodies from the eruption.
Staff reported "spending too much time fire fighting" and "no time for triage".
Jesse Whare is one of the lucky ones - she has a match. Others are still waiting.
Air NZ passengers and Les Mills members warned they may have been exposed to measles.
The most competitive jobs in local politics aren't necessarily the highest paid.
Auckland Regional Public Health Service to give an update on Auckland's measles outbreak
Changes would mostly affect women on the North Shore and in West and South Auckland.
This 45-year-old man was healthy and fit. He's now desperately sick from measles.
The event is being held amidst a worsening measles outbreak.
Customers warned phone lines closed; emails, inquiries via website and Facebook delayed.
A confidential report has outlined the huge threat of superbugs to Kiwi patients.
Each year hundreds turn up to ED after being wrongly prescribed medication by a doctor.
A cheap, simple test is picking up critical defects in NZ newborns. So what's the catch?
New measles cases being confirmed every day as city teeters on an epidemic.