Father of girl in coma to leave Christchurch
Mr Harry Gunning, the father of a girl who is in a coma in an Australian hospital, will leave Christchurch and live in Brisbane. Mr Gunning will leave behind a two-year fight to have his daughter, Jeanne, transferal to a New Zealand hospital. Miss Gunning has required full-time hospital care in Brisbane since she was given a drug overdose in July, 1981. Appeals to the Govern-
ment to have her cared for in New Zealand failed. Christchurch Hospital would have looked after Miss Gunning but it would have cost $lOOO a week. Mrs Dorothy Gunning has spent the last 10 months at the bedside of her daughter. Mr Gunning has now decided to join his wife in Brisbane. He said that the loneliness he had endured over the last 10 months had taken its toll. “Mum arrives back from
Brisbane tonight for a short holiday and then we will both head for Brisbane,” Mr Gunning said. Mr Gunning has sold their house in Christchurch and will move into a small rented home in Brisbane with his wife. “I am very disappointed about having to leave Christchurch. We have made a tot of friends in New Zealand,” he said. Mr and Mrs Gunning came to Christchurch from Brisbane seven years ago.
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