Up close and personal with ministers: Tongan Health Society’s surreal sortie into the nightly news

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Up close and personal with ministers: Tongan Health Society’s surreal sortie into the nightly news

Ayesha Verrall at Otahuhu Medical Centre
Ayesha Verrall at the Tongan Health Society’s new Ōtāhuhu practice: even health ministers had to grab space where they could when the media came to town [Image: NZD]

Alan Perrott has squeezed into a fair few media scrums in his time but this was a whole new level of crazy

At least he was in the right place to have a heart attack. The poor bugger had opened the door after seeing his GP only to find what had been a narrow