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Kōrero: Rural services

Mobile surgical bus

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Mobile surgical bus

The mobile surgical bus travels the road to Te Puia Springs on the East Coast. Since 2002 the bus has visited small rural hospitals so people can have minor surgery locally rather than at city hospitals.

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Mobile Surgical Services

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Health, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18574/mobile-surgical-bus (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.