The facts are out, and they hurt.

The Government have broken their promise. They’ve told us we’re not getting the hospital as designed.

The Government’s looking at two band-aid options:

Retrofit the old hospital
Deliver a downscaled version of the promised hospital

But a band-aid won’t heal this cut.

This is not a local hospital – it’s a regional hospital that will serve the lower South Island and provide resilience in the event of the AF8 (Alpine Fault magnitude 8). The hospital is also crucial for training the doctors, nurses and other medical specialists we so desperately need.

Hospital cuts hurt – and it will be the people of Dunedin and the South who feel the pain.

Hospital Cuts Hurt street march 28 September 2024

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Everybody is entitled to a quality of life and access to medical attention, including residents of Dunedin and the outer regions. My message to the Government is simple – be honest, be honourable and deliver the new Dunedin Hospital as promised.

Jo Millar, Grey Power Otago

Cuts hurt my whānau because we rely on top-notch health professionals who are attracted to work in a top-notch hospital. One of those amazing surgeons saved my loved one’s life after an accident in Central Otago.

Dunedin City Councillor Christine Garey

I was appointed to the original group charged with the planning and rebuild of Dunedin Hospital. The planned build was (just) big enough based on some pretty heroic assumptions. My final words were, if anybody reneges on this, I will be up the front of the march to protest. Any reductions now will make this hospital too small.

Richard Thomson, Healthcare Otago Charitable Trust