John McCaffery said the family believed the outbreak of dengue was serious and that New Zealand should offer its help.
Kaniva News reports McCaffery is an uncle of Telefoni, who died in Vaiola hospital on 24 January.
“Tonga apparently still has no laboratory facilities to do the required blood tests for dengue especially the close monitoring needed to know if the virus is going to advance to the critical life threatening stage,” McCafferey said.
