Dunedin North MP David Clark’s political career hangs by the slenderest thread, after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday said he would have been sacked from his job as Health Minister if not...
The Southern District Health Board expects to be dealing with Covid-19 and its consequences for months, if not years, and long-term planning is already under way for that.
At the second time of asking, a project manager has been appointed to assist in the roll-out of the Southern District Health Board’s primary maternity strategy.
Rising to meet the challenge of Covid-19 has derailed efforts to manage another major issue facing the Southern District Health Board: its parlous financial state.
Eleven Southland Hospital staff are in self-isolation after operating on and caring for a patient who later tested positive to Covid-19, it was revealed yesterday.
The turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will delay but not deter the Government from building a new Dunedin Hospital, Health Minister David Clark says.
The location of the cluster of Covid-19 cases linked to a wedding in Bluff has been revealed as more than 70 staff of Queenstown’s Lakes District Hospital have now been tested, after a second nurse tested positive.
Lakes District Hospital was cleaned from top to bottom last night and 36 staff tested for Covid-19 after a nurse at the Queenstown facility tested positive to the disease.
Otago Community Hospice services, vital in the middle of a pandemic, are continuing, but the financial viability of the service is uncertain, chief executive Ginny Green says.
The number of Covid-19 cases in the South continues to increase and a veterinary clinic in Ranfurly has closed after a staff member tested positive, in another case linked to the World Hereford Conference.
The southern health system is coping well with the ravages of Covid-19, but ‘‘we are not yet through the eye of the storm,’’ Southern District Health Board chief executive Chris Fleming says.
Southern cases of Covid-19 surged past 30 yesterday, as the Ministry of Health warned the number of cases of the potentially fatal pandemic disease will keep rising for at least the next 10 days.
Covid-19 reached some of the smaller centres in the southern region yesterday, as New Zealand made final preparations to shut down and defend itself against the pandemic disease.