Surgery bus sews up major milestone
Thursday, October 25, 2012 • Helena de Reus
New Zealand's mobile surgical bus reached a milestone in Balclutha yesterday - carrying out its 15,000th operation. Mobile Surgical Services has been running for 10 years, having carried out its first operation on March 8, 2002, in Te Puia Springs, near Gisborne. Yesterday, surgical bus staff joined patients and hospital staff at Clutha Health First to mark the service's latest milestone. Mobile Surgical Services director Dr Stuart Gowland said the bus was about bringing day surgery back to the communities that lost that facility years ago...