30 Jul 2024

Lives at risk because of shortage of nurses - Thames nurses

From Checkpoint, 5:12 pm on 30 July 2024

In Thames, nurses have picketed outside the Thames Hospital to voice their frustration at what the union said is constant understaffing and increased workloads in the emergency department. Their message is clear, they say someone is going to die because of the dire shortage of nurses. Donna Sarjeant, a nurse at Thames Hospital and a delegate for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation speaks to Susana Lei'ataua.