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Health sector response to shootings a light of hope on darkest day

27 March 2019

New Zealand Doctor team

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 10:15 AM

Floral tributes were laid outside two mosques in Christchurch in honour of the victims of a gunman

The mass shootings at two Christchurch mosques on 15 March shocked the country and the world. Fifty people died in the attacks and almost as many were rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds. GPs were among the first responders amid the carnage. New Zealand Doctor reports on the aftermath, and the impact on health professionals and communities

Nobody in general practice would ever expect to be seeing the awful sights they encountered. It has been most difficult Doctors and nurses from P

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