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Andrew Little is the Minister of Health, right? Yet he cannot see what New Zealand’s medical staff and hospital patients can, it seems. He claims he hasn’t seen any statistics reporting high levels of patients in NZ hospitals. How out of touch with one’s portfolio can a minister be? Don’t answer that…

Patients are being treated in hospital corridors and ambulance bays.

“There is more chaos because effectively the departments are overcrowded, so we have patients everywhere and it’s really difficult to do a good job in that situation,” Dr Allan said.

Perhaps ‘rejecting the premise’ is catching?

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