Neurosurgery

Happy with a $12,000 donation from Dunedin Pharmacy Guild members to the Chair in Neurosurgery campaign are (from left) guild Otago division chairman and director of Unichem Gardens Pharmacy, Dunedin North Pharmacy and Unichem South City Pharmacy, Chin Loh, campaign chairman Brian McMahon and Roslyn Care Chemist director Andy Hou, as other guild members look on, in Dunedin yesterday.

Building starts today on the Mitre 10 neurosurgery brain house in Dunedin.

Upper Clutha quilters will spend today and tomorrow making a quilt which will be raffled to raise funds for the neurosurgery campaign.

An Oamaru woman is urging people to give a portion of the extra day they work for leap year to the neurosurgery fundraising campaign.

Two Dunedin students, Matt Fuller (28, left) and Richard Aspinall (23) hit their stride in Princes St, Dunedin, this week, watched by Dr Jill McIlraith, clinical leader of Dunedin Sexual Health Clinic, and husband Dunedin neurologist Associate Prof Graeme Hammond-Tooke.

Public donations have helped the neurosurgery campaign reach its halfway goal, with more than $1.5 million raised.

A house is to be built and auctioned to raise funds for the neurosurgery campaign.

The 82-year-old spearheading the neurosurgery fundraising effort was bemused when he was asked to take the role.

The South's business community is being urged to back the campaign to raise $3 million for neurosurgery.

Computer games to stimulate, monitor and aid the elderly will become more central to providing care as the population ages, Norway-based computer scientist Dr Simon McCallum says.