Senior doctors and dentists at Health NZ public hospitals and health services plan to strike for 48 hours on Tuesday 23 September and Wednesday 24 September. Emergency departments will be open for emergencies only. GPs, after-hours and urgent care clinics, and other community health providers are not affected by the strike and will continue to operate as normal.
About the strike
Critical care unit at Whanganui
Whanganui Hospital's Critical care unit caters for critically ill, cardiac and high-dependency patients who require a highly specialised level of care.
Contact us
You can contact the Critical care unit by:
- Phone: 06 348 1234 and dial extension 8267 when prompted.
Where to find us
The Critical care unit is located at:
- Acute Services Building
- 100 Heads Road
- Whanganui
Whanganui Hospital map
Services we provide
The team provides the following types of health care, depending on patient needs:
- intensive care (for patients needing to be on a ventilator or require constant observation)
- coronary care (for patients with heart problems)
- high-dependency medical care (for patients requiring non-invasive ventilation or high care needs)
- surgical care (for major post-operative patients).
The unit is co-located with the hospital’s Emergency Department, and Children's and Maternity wards to provide patients with a smooth transition between departments when necessary.
The unit has 6 beds and 6 telemetry units, as well as a large whānau room with kitchen facilities and a TV.
Some unit nurses are also part of our flight team, who fly angiography patients to Wellington and other patients to specialist hospitals where required.