133 Molesworth Street
PO Box 5013
Wellington 6140
New Zealand
T+64 4 496 2000
10 March 2022
Chuck Schooner
By email: [FYI request #18233 email]
Ref:
H202201546
Tēnā koe Chuck
Response to your request for official information
Thank you for your requests under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) on 10 and 16
February 2022. Your requests have been consolidated under section 18(A) of the Act.
This part of your request was transferred to the Ministry from the Prime Minister’s Office on 10
February 2022:
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
The Ministry does not agree with the premise of your request referring to ‘disobedient
healthcare workers’. Staff have been stood down following mandatory vaccination, for
information about the types of employees subject to a mandatory vaccination, please refer
to the following li
nk: https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-
planning/covid-19-mandatory-vaccinations.
Information is recorded by individual employers, rather than the Ministry itself. Your request is
refused under section 18(g)(i) of the Act, as the information requested is not held by the Ministry
and there are no grounds for believing it is held by another agency subject to the Act.
So just a follow up on this there was one confirmed report of poisoning and one other
Medsafe are aware of so “Two” in total.
So what is the criteria for a product to be removed?
Please provide all the reporting/documents that linked this product to being removed and
the associated recommendation by Medsafe.
I want to see the process that Medsafe went through and the evidence used to justify
stopping this product being used.
Did the person die?
If not there was one person in total that had a reaction?
What is the criteria for a medicine to stop being prescribed?
- one death?
- heart conditions?
- two deaths?
- one reaction as per Goree product being removed
- Bells Palsy?
- 13 year olds death being investigated? Would that warrant a roll out being stopped?
- miscarriages?
- auto immune disorders?
What criteria needs to be met for a product to be removed? Please provide the Goree
reporting so I can understand the criteria.
The Ministry is still working on the above parts of your request and will endeavour to provide
this to you as soon as reasonably practicable.
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.
Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Ministry of Health website at:
www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases.
Nāku noa, nā
Jan Torres
Acting Manager, OIA Services
Office of the Deputy Director-General
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