Tsunami alert has practices closed and staff heading for nearby hills

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Tsunami alert has practices closed and staff heading for nearby hills

New Zealand Doctor team

New Zealand Doctor team

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Staff at Mahitahi Hauora primary health entity evacuated their office at 9am to find higher ground [Photo: Janine Maher]

Practices along the east coast of the North Island closed up and staff headed for local hills following a tsunami alert in the wake a magnitude 8.1 earthquake centred near the Kermadec Islands - below we will provide coverage from around the regions

10.55am: Te Kaha patients affected by warning , The Te Kaha Medical Centre building is well above sea level and unaffected by the tsunami warning, but many of the centre’s patients in its Eastern Ba