The lack of adequate eating disorder treatment facilities in New Zealand has cost that country's health officials nearly $750,000 as they've had to send over a dozen teenagers to Australia to receive proper care.

"Health Minister Tony Ryall... earlier this year described the problems with anorexia treatment as 'a shambles', telling Campbell Live he had ordered a report on the DHBs' [District Health Boards] efforts to organize a service for the northern region."

Currently, there are only 12 beds for acute inpatient anorexia treatment in all of New Zealand, none of which are in the country's northern region. Source: The New Zealand Herald

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