Taumarunui’s quirky fix for an outage dilemma

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Taumarunui’s quirky fix for an outage dilemma

By Amanda Cameron
Taumarunui Medical Centre
Taumarunui Medical Centre and the Family Clinic found a unique workaround to keep services running during a three-day outage [image: supplied]

Amanda Cameron finds out how general practices in Taumarunui coped after internet and landlines in the township went down

A three-day communications outage prompted Taumarunui GPs to return to the “old days” of printing out pre­scriptions, sending faxes and writing medica, The Family Clinic Taumarunui