The much anticipated rebuild announcement at Dunedin Hospital on Saturday did not go entirely to plan. Prime Minister Bill English, Health Minister Jonathan Coleman and Dunedin list MP Michael Woodhouse trooped up to the eighth floor to visit patients. Busy ward staff had to wend their way through politicians, reporters, political staff, and Southern District Health Board staff and commissioners. A mother watching proceedings with two young children was contemptuous of journalists "lapping it up" while Mr English greeted patients. Prime Minister Bill English and Dunedin Hospital charge nurse Mary Molloy walk past a sign warning of asbestos at the Dunedin Hospital on Saturday.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 20, 2017 18:11 UTC