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    On life support

    Apr 11, 2021 3 minutes

    year ago, this country was braced for the risk its hospitals could be overwhelmed by the pandemic. Now they are overwhelmed – but simply by business as usual. Covid-19 is well under control, but the emergency departments of three of our big hospitals, Middlemore, Dunedin and Whangārei, have this year reached critical capacity and have had to plead for patients to stay away or go to local GP clinics. Elsewhere, hospitals

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