During 2017, almost 550 people living in the Midland health region* were admitted to hospital with a traumatic brain injury. Of these, 66% were male,... Read More
Surgeons at Waikato Hospital are the first in New Zealand to learn a less invasive lung surgery technique that is quicker, not as painful, and enables patients to recover faster.
On the computer screen in surgeon Grant Christey’s office is a map of the Midland district his trauma system covers. It takes in major centres, including New Plymouth, Hamilton, Rotorua, Tauranga and Gisborne, and comprises five district health boards: Tairāwhiti, Taranaki, Lakes, Bay of Plenty and Waikato.
A young American woman who suffered critical injuries in a crash that killed three students in 2012, has made the pilgrimage back to New Zealand to thank the doctors and nurses who saved her life.
A pair of red woollen booties sit perched at the end of Kaihī Kaka's crib.
The 10-day-old infant is wrapped in a home-made blanket, donated by a woman from Tokoroa.
The gifts are warm and thoughtful, his mother Samantha Lee says, but also a painful reminder the pair were spending Christmas Day in hospital, away from her partner and two older children.