A day in the life of Wellington Hospital

The hospital's laboratory conducts tests to help diagnose diseases. Many of them pass through the hands of Graeme Mahoney.

Anthony Apolo is one of many who assembles food into meals for patients before sending them off to the various wings.

Falesoa Alaifava cooks a high number of meals each day, and says the food at the hospital is actually quite good.

MRI operator Jenny Furniss watches as patient Richard Jurevics undergoes MRI scanning.

Patients undergo MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans to detect cancer and other diseases.

Before entering surgery, hospital staff like Bethany Schaap have to sterilise their hands, or "scrub up".

Surgical teams, like this one led by Keith Maslin, operate many times each day.

Lena Sevelio has come to the hospital to have cataract surgery to regain the sight in her right eye.

Cataract removal surgery is common and is done under local anaestethic.

A critical element of any hospital is the supply room - and Wellington Hospital's supply room is immense.

Geoff Buckley is one of those responsible for ensuring the hospital's vast amount of laundry is washed and dried.

Laundry bags are stacked by workers like Titus Pothiyil before they are sorted and processed.

Several babies are born each day and for new mother Virginia Barbisan and son Nico Sunderland, it is a place of new beginnings.