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The West Coast District Health Board has ordered an independent inquiry into the way it organised and communicated the closure of Ziman House rest home at Reefton Hospital a month ago.
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Reefton residents voiced their dismay amidst shouts of "bulls t" at a protest last night at the sudden closure of the town's hospital aged-care wing, after some residents suddenly moved out of the area days earlier than was first announced.