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  •   Home > News > Health & Safety

    Frustration from healthcare workers, over the lack of resources for heart patients

    Frustration from healthcare workers, over the lack of resources for heart patients


    The Heart of Aotearoa Kia Manawanui Trust Chief Executive Letitia Harding says the wait times for patients are dangerous.

    She says workers have told her, they're annoyed about the lack of attention is being placed on the issue.

    Harding says there's heart attack patients waiting in hospital for two weeks to have an anagram.

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