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‘He’ll keep taking the hits.’ A Samoan Kiwi who just wants to help Pacific health progress
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‘He’ll keep taking the hits.’ A Samoan Kiwi who just wants to help Pacific health progress
Wednesday 28 April 2021, 03:15 AM

South Seas Healthcare chief executive Silao Vaisola-Sefo grew up in Samoa caring for his then bedridden mother, spoke no English when he first went to primary school in Dunedin, and played rugby until his body said "no more" and then he needed a new plan
Alan Perrott meets a man who pushed for Ōtara, south Auckland, to get a ‘gold-standard’ COVID-19 community-based assessment centre last year
Silao Vaisola-Sefo, South Seas Healthcare chief executive
Heritage: Gagaifo o le Vao village, Samoa
Arrived in New Zealand: Aged eight years ol
Kia ora and welcome to New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa
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