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The taxpayer has coughed up $12,000 a week for extra security at Christchurch Hospital because of...
The taxpayer has coughed up $12,000 a week for extra security at Christchurch Hospital because of...
Sizable aftershocks are continuing to shake Christchurch today, as the Prime Minister says authorities need time to sort out what parts of the city will be abandoned due to quake damage.
Timaru Hospital has been closed to visitors while a suspected norovirus outbreak is contained.
Canterbury DHB chief executive David Meates has invoked memories of Hurricane Katrina to justify evacuating hundreds of elderly out of the Christchurch in the wake of last week's earthquake.
More than 300 elderly people have been moved from quake-damaged residential care centres in Christchurch, some without the knowledge of their families, Canterbury District Health Board (DHB) has admitted.
There have been 22 cases of gastroenteritis since the Christchurch earthquake.
Misery in the form of illness struck earthquake-ravaged Christchurch this afternoon, with the closure of one of the three welfare centres in the city.
Christchurch hospitals are busy but coping as patient numbers swell from the earthquake.
North Island hospitals are receiving Christchurch earthquake victims and plan to send specialists to help in the devastated city.
A Nigerian drug smuggler who fooled immigration officials to get a job as a hospital psychiatrist was yesterday jailed for 16 months.
Thousands of Canterbury residents will probably have to keep boiling water until the end of the week to minimise the risk of disease after Saturday's earthquake.