Middlemore

So how was I going to, you know, survive going back there and, you know, we're getting on in years and what are we going to, what's the future going to be like? The cost, right? So the cost of, we were about to buy a home here.

I was looking at targeting a good job in Middlemore because I'm a nurse and I had enrolled in a master's program in nursing and I was going to have to give all of that up.

That was my struggle going back, although I knew it was the call of God.

But I went.

South Auckland paediatrician Dame Tuila Percival says this winter's the worst she can remember.

She says at Kids First Hospital at Middlemore, doctors are doing extra shifts and specialists from other departments are helping out in the ED.

If children are admitted, it's often for help with breathing, dehydration, fever or vomiting.

Dame Tuila wants the flu vaccine free for everyone next year and more support for GPs.

South Auckland paediatrician Dame Tuila Percival says this winter's the worst she can remember.

She says at Kids First Hospital at Middlemore, doctors are doing extra shifts and specialists from other departments are helping out in the ED.

If children are admitted, it's often for help with breathing, dehydration, fever or vomiting.

Dame Tuila wants the flu vaccine free for everyone next year and more support for GPs.