Life And Society

Insight: Stocktake reveals the state of our hospital buildings

07:46 am on 20 March 2020

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Around 1100 hospital buildings or key parts of them are in poor or very poor condition, some unusable or facing imminent failure.

The first ever government stocktake of public health assets has been revealed to Insight and it also shows it will cost billions to fix them.

Phil Pennington has been investigating and paid a visit to Palmerston North Hospital.

Listen to the full podcast from RNZ Insight here.