Inside the mobile surgical unit with CEO Mark Eager Photo: JIM HUANG
New Zealand's operating theatres are severely under pressure, but a big blue articulated truck has been travelling up and down the country helping out with day surgery for 23 years.
The Mobile Surgical Unit – Te Waka Hauora - is 20 metres long and is a modern, fully equipped operating theatre, designed and built for a wide range of day surgeries.
Once parked, the surgical unit deploys its self-levelling, hydraulic ram stabilisers and at the touch of a button the sides of the trailer unit expand outwards, doubling its width.
The truck travels up and down the country supporting rural hospitals and helping to reduce waiting lists.
So far it's been able to treat 35,000 patients Its Chief Executive Mark Eager joins Kathryn from the Christchurch studio.
