The Whakaari eruption health response - what happened?

From Checkpoint, 5:21 pm on 7 December 2020

It's a year this week since the deadly Whakaari eruption. It prompted a massive nation-wide health response, ranging from ambulance officers on the ground to the country's top burns surgeons.

Forty-seven people were on the island at the time the volcano erupted; 22 people died and many received serious burns.

Nearly a year on from the eruption, Jean Bell takes a look at the health response. And a warning her story contains some distressing details.