Health

[ad_1] Chris McKeen / Stuff Manukau Counties DHB has been found to be in violation of the Health Code for failure to care for a woman who developed pressure injuries and then sepsis, at the hospital. (File photo) A woman in her sixties developed sepsis from pressure injuries and died …

[ad_1] The National Party is committed to spending $ 685 million to increase support for children with special needs in school if it wins the election. The money would be spent over four years to hire about 1,500 new teacher aides, streamline and expand current funding, and identify problems earlier …

[ad_1] New Zealand will remain at its current level of Covid-19 restrictions for another week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, urging the public to stay the course of the county’s “cautious” approach to quelling the virus. “New Zealand has followed a plan that has worked,” he said, referring …

[ad_1] Queensland Health has been forced to apologize after a nurse from the 13 Health hotline gave strange advice to a distraught person, rather than immediately directing them to the emergency department. The health department is investigating the nurse, who told the patient, who had called for severe abdominal pain, …

[ad_1] Scott Hammond / Stuff Emily Stein was diagnosed with breast cancer in mid-2015 and died in 2019. She is pictured with her daughters Ada and Mabel and her husband Chris McMurtrie. A GP has been ordered to apologize to the widower of a young mother who died of breast …

[ad_1] JEAN BELL / RNZ A gym assistant with Covid-19 works in the quarantine facilities of the Jet Park Hotel This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and republished with permission. The person who attended three fitness classes in Auckland before testing positive for Covid-19 is a healthcare worker at …

[ad_1] If we don’t make a living analyzing the statistics, it is easy to be misled by misinformation about Covid-19 statistics on social media, especially if we don’t have the proper context. For example, we can select the statistics that support our point of view and ignore the statistics that …

[ad_1] By Amy Williams, RNZ The person who attended three fitness classes in Auckland before testing positive for Covid-19 is a healthcare worker at the country’s only quarantine hotel. The Health Ministry said the worker was likely to contract the virus at the Jet Park hotel near Auckland Airport, but …

[ad_1] More privately organized repatriation flights are planned from South India to Auckland. A private charter flight organized by Sehion Tours and Travels arrived over the weekend from Kochi with 203 passengers on board. Among the citizens and residents of New Zealand there were 24 babies. Sehion director Sijo Abraham …

[ad_1] Key points: The HDC report harshly criticizes the GP and medical center for not seeing a young woman’s cancer. A mother in her 20s died of breast cancer after a GP failed to investigate her “red flag” symptoms. The New Zealand GP and medical center have been found to …