What happened at Christchurch Hospital on the day of the Mosque shootings

On March 15 two men ran into Christchurch Hospital’s Emergency Department claiming they’d witnessed a shooting and to expect patients. It was the first and only warning the hospital would receive. The men said they’d escaped through a window at the Al Noor Mosque and run across Hagley Park, and they warned hospital staff that many victims would be arriving at the hospital soon. Emergency Physician, Dr Dominic Fleischer, says his initial reaction was of “cynicism and disbelief.” Then the patients began to
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