Compensation for covid vaccine damage
Virginia Crawford made this Official Information request to Ministry of Health
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From: Virginia Crawford
Dear Ministry of Health,
Will the New Zealand Government compensate anyone who suffers severe side effects or damage from the Covid-19 vaccine(s)?
Yours faithfully,
Virginia Crawford
Ministry of Health
Kia ora
Thank you for your request for official information received on 15 January
2021 for:
"Will the New Zealand Government compensate anyone who suffers severe side
effects or damage from the Covid-19 vaccine(s)?"
The Ministry's reference number for your request is: H202100165.
As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 15 February 2021, being
20 working days after the day your request was received.
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following website: [1]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/.
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Ngā mihi
OIA Services
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Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
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From: OIA Requests
Kia ora Virginia
Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) on 15 January 2021 for:
“Will the New Zealand Government compensate anyone who suffers severe side
effects or damage from the Covid-19 vaccine(s)?”
Information in response to your request is publicly available on the
Ministry website at:
[1]https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/...
I trust this information fulfils your request. Under section 28(3) of the
Act you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to review any decisions made
under this request. The Ombudsman may be contacted by email at:
[email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.
Ngâ mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]
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From: Virginia Crawford
Dear OIA Requests,
Unfortunately the links referred to in your reply lead to "page not found".
Could you please rectify?
Yours sincerely,
Virginia Crawford
From: OIA Requests
Kia Ora Virginia
This is the link again for you to try: https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/...
Alternatively, this is a link to the Responses to Offiicial Inormation Act requests web page. https://www.health.govt.nz/about-ministr...
Ngâ mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]
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From: Virginia Crawford
Dear OIA Requests,
Whilst I understand that treatment costs would be met by ACC in the event of serious side effects from a covid vaccine, what I really want to know is if monetary compensation would be available to anyone suffering damage (or even death). If the vaccine(s) is deemed "safe and effective" by government agencies, then it should follow that monetary compensation be awarded if the vaccine is shown to be unsafe.
To facilitate acceptance and uptake of the vaccine(s) by the general populace, people should have the reassurance of compensation if something goes wrong. Will the government give that reassurance?
Yours sincerely,
Virginia Crawford
Ministry of Health
Kia ora
Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.
Ngā mihi
OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
E: [email address]
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It looks like a couple of the URLs haven't been correctly converted back into text after the Ministry of Health printed the document, signed it, scanned it, and then apparently ran it through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to turn it back into text instead of an image of text.
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https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/dise...
https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Consumers/Sa...
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