Dunedin Hospital consultant speaks on new plans for rebuild

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The government announced in September that the Dunedin Hospital project would need to be scaled back or done in stages, because the cost was predicted to balloon to 3 billion dollars which it said at the time was unaffordable. But after months of heated community protests and a lot of criticism, newly appointed Health Minister Simeon Brown said the government has listened and the revised hospital build will go ahead at the old Cadbury factory site, the same site the government had previously said was unsuitable. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and consultant in Geriatric Mental Health at Dunedin hospital, Dr Yoram Barak spoke to Lisa Owen.