24 Jan 2018

Coroner grills Otago health bosses for lack of scanner

From Morning Report, 7:55 am on 24 January 2018

A coroner has castigated Otago health bosses for failing to bring in round-the-clock scanning that could have saved a Wanaka man's life. Warren Bates suffered severe head injuries falling down the stairs at his home during one weekend in early 2015. Dunstan Hospital doesn't run its CT scanner at weekends so didn't know just how bad his injuries were