Baby at centre of police search discharged from hospital

The sick baby at the centre of a North Island police search has been discharged from Rotorua Hospital after treatment.

Manukau couple Jamie Martin and Wade Stevens took eight-month-old daughter Oshyana to a doctor before heading off on a road trip to the central North Island over the Christmas break.

Test results came in after they left which showed that Oshyana needed urgent medical treatment.

Auckland's Starship Children's Hospital called on police to help find the family after the couple was unable to be reached on their cellphones and it was not known exactly where they had gone.

Senior Sergeant Emile Logan said an extensive search, combined with publicity through media organisations, helped track the family to a relative's house in Rotorua.

The couple was told of Starship's urgent request and immediately took their daughter to Rotorua Hospital yesterday.

A hospital spokeswoman told the Dominion Post today that Oshyana had been treated for an undislosed illness and later discharged.

Neither parent wanted to talk about the illness of the efforts made to track them down.

- NZPA