Taranaki District Health Board
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Telephone 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7770
Email
: [email address]
www.tdhb.org.nz
Taranaki Base Hospital
Private Bag 2016
New Plymouth 4620
New Zealand
Phone: 06 753 6139
Fax: 06 753 7710
Hāwera Hospital
8 June 2020
Post Office Box 98
Hāwera
New Zealand
Phone: 06 278-9929
Fax: 06 278 9910
Stratford Health Centre Phone: 06 765 7189
Nigel Gray
Opunake Medical Centre
Email:
[FYI request #12827 email]
(CoastalCare)
Phone: 06 761 7324
Pātea Health Centre
Phone: 06 273 8088
Waitara Health Centre
Phone: 06 754 7150
Dear Mr Gray
Mōkau Health Centre
Phone: 06 752 9723
Re:
Official Information Act
I am responding on behalf of Taranaki District Health Board (DHB) to your OIA request of 11 May 2020, which
was partially transferred to Taranaki DHB by the Ministry of Health on 21 May 2020. You have requested the
following information:
"Given that Electroconvulsive Treatment has been used as a method of torture historically in New Zealand, can
you please inform me of the precise number of these devices in NZ hospitals in present time?"
Taranaki DHB has one ECT device.
I trust the above information answers your OIA request.
Yours sincerely
Gillian Campbell
Chief Operating Officer