“The Smith family of Rotorua had been to the local emergency department so often that staff joked about dedicating a new wing to them,” reports the New Zealand Herald.
The article continues: “Steve Smith, now 49, weighed up to 150kg. His blood pressure was so high that he says doctors ‘were just waiting for me to die.’”
Read how the members of this family are working together to turn things around for themselves, with the support of fellow Maori, government workers and their local church.
Photograph courtesy of Alan Gibson and The New Zealand Herald.