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Patient update

This 58-year-old Papakura man is in ward 8, our neurosurgery ward at Waikato Hospital.

Date: 12 November 2009


Mary Anne Gill
Director
Media and Communications
Waikato District Health Board
P.O. Box 934
Hamilton 3240
Ph: 07 834 3684
Mobile: 021 705 213


Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance


Date: 11 November 2009

The Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance was called out to Thames ED to retrieve a 58 year old man with a head injury sustained in a fall.

The man, a resident of Auckland, was working in Whitianga when he fell approximately 3.5 metres, striking his head on concrete and knocking him unconscious. He was taken to Thames Hospital and subsequently flown to Waikato to undergo further evaluation and treatment.