Senior Labour MP Dr Ayesha Verrall is recovering from unplanned surgery.<\/p>\n
The party’s health spokesperson posted on social media on Monday evening that while the surgery was unplanned, it was “much-needed”.<\/p>\n
“I’m extremely grateful for the care of excellent doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and hospital staff working at Wellington Hospital,” she wrote.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had to change my schedule to allow for some recovery time. Then it’s right back to fighting for the strong public health system and affordable care that everyone deserves.”<\/p>\n
It is unclear when Verrall was due to return to work.<\/p>\n
Verrall, a former Health Minister, was contesting the Wellington North seat in this year’s election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Labour MP Dr Ayesha Verrall is recovering from unplanned surgery. The party’s health spokesperson posted on social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-564748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}