NZ Herald
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is defending his approach to addressing issues within New Zealand’s health system as he expresses his sadness over the death of a woman in Rotorua Hospital’s emergency department.
It comes as Luxon backs his Health Minister’s intervention regarding a Hawke’s Bay health policy that would have seen young Māori and Pasifika deemed eligible for some free healthcare services based on their ethnicity, something Luxon deemed “out of line”.
RNZ on Tuesday reported the death of a woman in the waiting room of Rotorua Hospital’s emergency department last month after allegedly waiting three hours to be seen.
