Eye clinic patients Steve Fawcett and Denise Wilson outside Dunedin Hospital yesterday. Patients of the eye clinic at Dunedin Hospital, who have been waiting more than a year for appointments, are being told to ''please be patient'', while they worry about their sight deteriorating. When she rang about it in August, she said she was told the clinic was running 13 months behind and to ''please be patient''. Waiting times at the eye clinic were nothing new, another patient said. The waiting room at the eye clinic had been as Mr Fawcett described, crowded and appointments running late, for as long as he could remember.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 01, 2016 17:11 UTC