Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

If I had a dollar for every parent contacting me about the state of things at Starship, I could make a large donation to the Hospital.It's dire in there at the moment. There’s a severe lack of funding, staff, beds, you name it, they’re screaming out for it.I just can’t fathom how the country’s only specialist children’s hospital can be so over run and in such dire need… and yet the government does nothing. I know it’s a DHB issue, and that model's questionable to say the least in terms of the way it handles funding, but it still doesn’t make sense to me that it can get this woeful, and the only thing propping it up is private donors.Off the back of last year, a year when the government locked people up and shut people out, the inevitable result was hundreds and hundreds of babies and children untouched by bugs and sickness. The follow on from this of course is that their little immune systems never got exposed to anything, never got the chance to toughen up or protect themselves. So now, this winter, with an