The story of patients waiting hours outside in a leaking tent in the middle of winter is appalling and shows a sector in crisis, the National Party’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says.
“Sick or injured New Zealanders deserve to wait inside an emergency department, not in a makeshift campground in the middle of winter.
“Health Minister Andrew Little’s refusal to acknowledge that the health sector is in crisis shows how out of touch he is with what is going on.
“Instead of addressing the critical issues right now, the Minster’s focus has been on rearranging the deck chairs in the health system in the middle of a pandemic.
“Unfortunately, North Shore is not the only emergency department that has people waiting outside in tents. We are hearing of more stories of this across other parts of the country.
“These stories have eerie similarities to the last time Labour crashed the health system, when patients were on trolleys in corridors and being sent to Australia.
“The Health Minister has already lost the support of the health sector. The least he can do now is to redirect some of the billion dollar health restructure funding to resolve the emergency department campgrounds.”
Geoff Waterhouse said:
Reti is just another opportunist pro jab polly.. I bet he doesn’t want to be reminded of this https://rumble.com/vjy1xk-mp-questioned-on-covid-cure.html “DEPUTY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION MAKES A QUICK EXIT” when he got caught and exposed at the Groundswell protest. The audio doesn’t seem to work but what he said is in the written part at the bottom
ihcpcoro said:
I’d trust Shane Reti and his competence over most in our so called parliament.
Geoff Waterhouse said:
Good for you. The choice between Nazional, Liebour, Green Red is do you want to be hung, shot or given a lethal injection. The end result is the same. We need to get rid of ALL of them nd start over using a system like they have in Switzerland. Here is how the Swiss system works, in case you don’t know
nazarene2222 said:
Agree with you totally Mr Waterhouse. They all need to go – the whole 120 seats. We want independants. Don’t let anyone tell you that voting for an independant party is a wasted vote. It is NOT. This trend has started in Australia, though not entirely successful yet, but people are waking up. Vote the independants – there are good independant parties in New Zealand – they are listed on Wikipedia. You will love their policies.
New Zealanders have had enough of the self-centred been-around-too-long “major” parties.