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Christmas arrives at Kiwi hospitals

Author
Josh White,
Publish Date
Thu, 25 Dec 2014, 6:48AM
Photo: File photo
Photo: File photo

Christmas arrives at Kiwi hospitals

Author
Josh White,
Publish Date
Thu, 25 Dec 2014, 6:48AM

Hospital staff are working to make Christmas as bearable as they can for patients and their families.

Waikato Hospital serves up one of the biggest Christmas feeds in the country - it'll serve 500 people today.

Dietician Wendy Dodunski says despite being in hospital, patients still want to celebrate Christmas.

"For their relatives, it's really important that patients are well catered for and cared for, just as they would care for them if they were at home."

Dodunski says the hospital isn't the place many people want to spend Christmas.

"But they certainly appreciate they're not left out and that they can have an option of a nice Christmas dinner to eat."

Wendy Dodunski says it's also important for the patients' families, to know they're included in Christmas.

More than 130 kilograms of meat and 150 pavlovas will be served today.

 

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