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Middlemore cases spur call for national plan to combat resistance

In April last year, Dr Freeman co-authored a paper in the New Zealand Medical Journal calling for a national response plan to the “clear and present danger” of carbapenem-resistant organisms. “These are common causes of infections – bugs we see every day in hospitals, but they are resistant to just …

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Pet Therapy at Kidz First - check out what my kids got up to yesterday while we were at hospital #middlemore #kidzfirst #grateful

  Pet Therapy at Kidz First

Photo / Nick Reed (NZ Herald)

Yesterday while my daughter was in hospital at Middlemore’s Kidz First, we were advised there would be a bit of Banyard Fun down in the courtyard.

So we headed down and it was so much fun – animals, bubbles, face painting, lucky dips.  It was just absolutely fantastic to see sick kids come down and have a moment’s reprieve whilst in…

Telecom people do some great work in the community and this week we tip our (woollen) hats to Dee Wallace.

While many of us are at home lazing about on the couch after work, Airedale Street's Dee Wallace is hard at work knitting baby hats for premature babies at Middlemore Hospital and Starship.

Dee says she can knit one hat per night while watching the TV and she reckons she probably knits about 200 hats per year, "I usually have a break at Christmas when it's a bit hot to knit" says Dee.

Dee was told about the premature babies at Middlemore hospital many years ago and starting knitting for them, then a friend at Starship told her about their need for little hats so now she alternates between the two hospitals.

"I wanted to help both these hospitals and have heard that they are delighted with what I do for them" says Dee.

Last year the Telecom Foundation hosted a knit-a-thon in their front room (which Dee participated in) and this year the Foundation is planning on doing the same! More on that soon.

Well done Dee, the babies are going to look very cute in their colourful wee hats!