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Dunedin man’s fight for 24/7 cath lab staffing after wife’s death turned down by minister

$Dunedin man Sam Weepers started a petition to change the Dunedin catheterisation lab\\u2019s operating hours to all day, every day in honour of his late wife, but the response was not the news many had hoped for. Photo: Peter McIntosh$

$Dunedin man Sam Weepers started a petition to change the Dunedin catheterisation lab\\u2019s operating hours to all day, every day in honour of his late wife, but the response was not the news many had hoped for. Photo: Peter McIntosh$

Dunedin man Sam Weepers started a petition to change the Dunedin catheterisation lab’s operating hours to all day, every day in honour of his late wife, but the response was not the news many had hoped for. Photo: Peter McIntosh

Laine PriestleyReporter

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