Nurses, Doctors & Midwife Shortage
Chuck Schooner (Account suspended) made this Official Information request to Jacinda Ardern
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From: Chuck Schooner (Account suspended)
Dear Jacinda Ardern,
Can you please provide
- total number of nurses either resigned or let go due to mandate
- total number of doctors as above
- total number of midwives as above
Can you please provide the reporting, cost/benefit analysis and the reports that supported the administration firing disobedient healthcare workers during a pandemic
Please provide names/personnel that were signatories/recommended firing health workers in the pandemic. Effectively I require all the papers, submissions and justification for doing this in what has been labelled a health crisis
Can you please provide your medical qualifications that justify making healthcare choices for these people
Please provide the extent of your work in the healthcare profession
Yours faithfully,
Chuck
From: Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern
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Jacinda Ardern
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Kia ora Mr Spooner
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