30 November 2021
Paul Jones
Email: <[FYI request #17279 email]>
Dear Paul,
Re: Official Information Act request – Covid 19 Hospitalisation treatment statistics
I refer to your Official Information Act request to the Ministry of Health of 20 October 2021 seeking
the following information and transferred 3 November to Auckland DHB for a response:
At the fol owing URL it lists the total number of Covid 19 cases and Hospitalisations.
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-
coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics
At the time of this writing there have been a total of 321 people hospitalised and 41 in
ICU.
For my reference this is out of a total of 5153 cases since first NZ case.
1) As ICU is a department of hospitals, of the 41 people in ICU is that total apart of the 321
people hospitalised or is that a combined total of 362 (41+321) people in hospital?
2) For al people who entered hospital (321 or 362) please provide a breakdown for the
number of those cases who received the fol owing Covid-19 treatments.
i) Oxygen
ii) Remdesivir
iii) Tocilizumab
I am responding on behalf of the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre (NRHCC), the COVID-
19 response and vaccination team set up by the Northland, Waitematā, Auckland, and Counties
Manukau DHBs.
Response
We are unable to provide a response within the normal timeframes due to our response to COVID-19,
as our clinicians, managers and staff are concentrating on measures to manage the current COVID-19
Delta outbreak in the region.
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Given these circumstances you will, therefore, understand that we do not currently have the capacity
to respond with our normal timeliness to OIA requests and, depending on how the outbreak spreads,
we may not have the capacity for some time to come.
It is therefore necessary to extend the time required to make a decision on your request for
information in accordance with section 15A of the Official Information Act. This is because the
information cannot reasonably be identified, collated or reviewed by the necessary people within 20
working days without unreasonably interfering with our operations. As such, we expect that a decision
will be made on your request and communicated to you by 8 December (five working days from the
due date of your request). However, we wil endeavour to get the response to you as soon as possible
within this timeframe, if possible.
You are entitled to seek a review of the response by the Ombudsman under section 28(3) of the
Official Information Act. Information about how to make a complaint is at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.
Please note that this response, or an edited version of this response, may be published on the
Auckland DHB website.
Yours sincerely,
Ailsa Claire, OBE
Chief Executive
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