Tawhai Reti and wife Lani Reti.
A New Zealand blood cancer patient who was forced to leave his children behind and make a last-chance dash to Australia to access funded drugs has now been given a cutting-edge transplant that is not publicly available here.
Late last year, Tawhai Reti, who has myeloma, had exhausted all his funded treatment options in New Zealand, and his family was preparing for the worst.
But instead, in February, the former shearer and his wife, Lani, made the decision to go to Australia to access a lifesaving drug, Daratumumab, which is funded over the ditch, but not in New Zealand.
Tawhai Reti in hospital.
