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Treating a patient

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Treating a patient

St John ambulance officers treat a patient in the ambulance at the scene of an accident. Each day 1,100 New Zealanders on average rely on the ambulance service to treat them and take them to hospital.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Ambulance services – Ambulance services in the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22358/treating-a-patient (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 4 February 2010.