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

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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.

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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

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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

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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()

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.

Here are the corrected URLs:
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/dise...

https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/Consumers/Sa...

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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
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Ministry of Health
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-----Original Message-----
From: Virginia Crawford <[FOI #14465 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 4:27 pm
To: OIA Requests <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Response to request for official information (ref: H202100165)

Dear OIA Requests,

Unfortunately the links referred to in your reply lead to "page not found".

Could you please rectify?

Yours sincerely,

Virginia Crawford

-----Original Message-----

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,

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

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Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.

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Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
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