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Cave Creek Or Cervical Screening

Cave Creek Or Cervical Screening-The Cause Is The Same!

Whangarei based New Zealand First MP, Hon Brian Donnelly, today suggested that “those responsible for having failed to adequately monitor the cervical screening programme, leading to the debacle in Gisborne and placing the lives of many New Zealand women at risk, return the generous bonuses they have received over recent years as a gesture to kick off the establishment of a fund from which to pay the $50,000 now being claimed by those whose lives have been shattered by the experience.”

“Government should also be demanding that those in the public health service, who are responsible for failing the women so badly, front up and take responsibility for their failings,” he said.

“This issue is rapidly taking on the hallmarks of another infamous Government tragedy, that of Cave Creek. In that instance, politicians and the people let those responsible walk away unscathed. Have we learnt nothing at all from such experiences? ” he asked.

“I am sickened at the prospect of continuing the practice of failing to hold those responsible for their actions, or in this case, inaction’s,” Mr Donnelly concluded.


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