By Malcolm
I knew Jacinda Ardern and her CoL had plunged the country into a financial crisis when our local hospital this week announced that all its inpatient beds were full and the overflow had filled the A&E beds with emergency admissions. They have declared a “code red”. Because they have no money they have also cancelled all elective surgery, with the expected reduction in the quality of life for all those on the waiting lists: lists that had been thrown into chaos by the recent doctors’ strike.
Apparently, the waiting list was 3 to 4 months, but now that all elective surgery has been cancelled it could be anywhere from 6 months to 18 months. We are living in a first-world country, aren’t we?
Our PM has money to spray around the Pacific Islands, to fund the ill-conceived firearms buyback scheme (that incidentally won’t save a single life), but not to fund hospitals properly to save lives and reduce the suffering of those that pay her salary. The same people who also fund the cost of flying her to all her self-promoting overseas stage shows. We must also not forget the billions we give away to the Climate Scam, the UN, the Clinton Foundation and all the others.
As people on the BFD have pointed out, the health, wellbeing and prosperity of the citizens should and must come first, and this should be Jacinda’s only and main focus. Whatever happened to her “Wellbeing” budget? Our local hospital and I would like to know.