Video / NZ HeraldA "healthy" 50-year-old woman has died with brain bleed after allegedly being told by staff at Middlemore Hospital's emergency department there would be an eight-hour wait before she was examined. At 2.30pm he told the Herald she was in ICU, at the same time the unnamed doctor said she had died. Top emergency doctor John Bonning told the Herald, last week, hospitals across the country were seeing "record-level delays and record numbers of patients". Little told the Herald last week that while hospitals were under pressure, "as they were every winter", they were coping. Middlemore Hospital's emergency department under increasing strain.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 16, 2022 15:35 UTC