Dunedin residents air neurosurgery concerns

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Over 1000 people attended the meeting

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:28p.m.

More than 1000 people packed into Dunedin's Town Hall last night in support of retaining neurosurgery services in the south.

It was a chance for former patients and families to address the expert panel, looking into the future of the unit.

Critics say downgrading brain surgery services in the south by centralising them in Christchurch will be more expensive and will cost lives.

Invercargill residents will get their chance to address the panel on Thursday.

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Andrena

31 Aug 2010 4:07p.m.

I had a son with a brain tumour. Living with this alone was a strain beyond anyones belief and if I had to cope with that in a city away from friends and family it would have been unbearable. We live in NZ. Not a third world country. On a day when the government has written out a cheque for $1.5B to SCF we shouldn't be even asking this question. I would rather see $1.5B going to clear hospital waiting lists. Leave the services where they are. Dunedin and Invercargill residents deserve services the same as the rest of us. They are not little one horse towns where you expect to travel to a major centre.