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Doctors pleading for improvements in blood cancer care
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:08:34
Publish Date: 2026-03-11 04:07:00
Description: A group of blood cancer specialists are expressing their alarm at the unnecessary loss of kiwi lives due to treatment in New Zealand lagging behind international standards. Dozens of doctors, nurses and clinician reseachers have written an open letter to the Prime Minister pleading for improvements in blood cancer care. They say New Zealanders are dying because they cant get drugs that are funded overseas and they're also being cut out of clinicial trials. Auckland haematologist Doctor Rory Bennett signed the letter spoke to Lisa Owen.
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