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Speaker 1: Relay and bread Rich. The main building at Auckland Hospital

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Speaker 1: has no running hot water. Yes, it's a problem and

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Speaker 1: it's something to do with the pipes. It may take

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Speaker 1: seventy two hours to fix this problem. Health New Zealand

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Speaker 1: says there are mitigator mitigations in place to ensure the

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Speaker 1: hospital's usual clinical care will continue, et cetera. Malcolm Mulholland's

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Speaker 1: Chair of Patient Voice Alt, he's with me tonight, Malcolm,

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Speaker 1: good evening. Okay, Roan, what have you heard about this?

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Speaker 1: What's going on here? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: So I heard that one of the water pipes burst

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Speaker 2: yesterday and that it could take up to seventy two

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Speaker 2: hours to rectify the situation. But unfortunately it's affecting Building

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Speaker 2: thirty two. And those who are familiar with Auckland Hospital

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Speaker 2: would know that's the main building in New Zealand's biggest

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Speaker 2: hospital where most of not all, patients are housed in

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Speaker 2: the wards.

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Speaker 1: So and this is the maternity ward that's affected, right.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, amongst others, amongst others. So it's maternity wards.

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Speaker 2: Its most people who are receiving care in the wards

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Speaker 2: who are affected by this, whether it be cardiovascular or renal,

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Speaker 2: you name it they're affected, right.

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Speaker 1: Is there a I mean, can can they shower like

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Speaker 1: your new mums have just had babies? Do you know

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Speaker 1: what's going on there? Or are they Can they go

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Speaker 1: somewhere else?

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Speaker 2: Yes, they're going to have to be transported away from

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Speaker 2: the maternity ward to another part of Auckland Hospital in

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Speaker 2: order for them to have a share. That's certainly not

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Speaker 2: ideal for mothers who have just given birth. Keeping in

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Speaker 2: mind some would have had suffered a traumatic birth and

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Speaker 2: so their bodies will be sore, and transporting them around

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Speaker 2: certainly isn't the recommended standard of care, as well as

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Speaker 2: that they've got on top of that, whether or not

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Speaker 2: they take their new born with them, because some of

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Speaker 2: course will require breastfeeding.

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Speaker 1: Goodness mate, thank you Malcolm. Malcolm a holand patient voice

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Speaker 1: alter share on the main building an Auckland hospital with

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Speaker 1: no running water. I mean it's not ideal, is that

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Speaker 1: when you don't have pipes that work in our hospitals

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Speaker 1: to get people hot water, to have a shower, or

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Speaker 1: presumably to sterilize equipment. I mean, obviously Health News Inland

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Speaker 1: tested I've got things under control, so I guess you

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Speaker 1: could have believed that don't you until you know otherwise.

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