September 30, 2022
New children’s hospital for Whanganui a Tara
Wellington has a new children’s hospital.
Te Wao Nui, which was opened this morning alongside Wellington Regional Hospital in Newtown, has been built with a $53 million contribution from benefactors Mark Dunajtschik and Dorothy Spotswood.
The Government contributed another $53 million and $10 million was raised by the Wellington Hospitals Foundation.
Health Minister Andrew Little says it offers the region’s children top-quality health care in one place.
He says children will be able to recover in private, light, self-contained, temperature-controlled rooms, with their own ensuites, and they’ll have room to have someone they know and trust stay with them overnight, so they can sleep better and recover more easily.