Free health care for children under six is all very well if you happen to fall sick between 9am and 5pm. But late at night that after hours doctor's visit could cost you an arm or a leg.
Paediatricians call it a ticking time bomb - the illnesses that go untreated because parents can't afford after hours medical care. They say preventable diseases are turning into lifetime scars because parents can't afford after hours treatment.
In a country where 28% of Kiwi kids live in poverty, that's almost a third of adults with health problems.
