6 Nov 2024

Union petitions Parliament to roll back Dunedin Hospital cuts

From Checkpoint, 6:20 pm on 6 November 2024

Back home, a nurses union has petitioned Parliament to roll back its cuts to the new Dunedin Hospital. They say it's a broken promise, that the government cares more about money than patients - and downgrading the hospital will lead to deaths. Political Reporter Russell Palmer was there and filed this report.

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