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A towel shortage at Waikato Hospital has left an elderly patient unable to shower for days, with the family feeling appalled by the lack of basic care.
Maureen Cruickshank, whose mother stayed at the hospital earlier this month, said the wards ran out of towels twice during her stay.
The first was a one-day shortage in mid-December.
But it was the latest three-day shortage in the Older Per
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