Southlanders are worried that cancer care hasn’t made it onto the Ministry of Health's new list of priorities but Andrew Little says Government takes cancer seriously.
She had been incredibly busy all Friday, visiting three schools already before speaking at the Invercargill Middle School assembly where she was presented with $256.80 raised by the pupils. The next stop was the site of the new charity hospital in Clifton, where a slumped glass piece embedded with the handprints of players involved in the Blair Vining rugby Pack the Park game last October had been donated by Escape Glass. “I’m absolutely rapt with it,” she said. The Vining’s began campaigning for the charity hospital after Blair’s terminal bowel cancer diagnosis in October 2018 revealed a lack of specialist cancer treatment and resources in Southland.