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December 07, 2022
Covid Commission chance to lock in Māori gains
Adam Gifford
Posted On December 7, 2022
Download AudioThe chief medical officer for Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori health Authority, says the Royal Commission on the Covid 19 response is a chance to lock in some of the hard-earned lessons from the pandemic.
Rawiri McKree Jansen, who played a leading role in Māori pandemic response group Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā, says that would include the contribution Māori organsiaitons and communities played, which could have been done earlier and better,
While the commission isn’t due to report until mid-2024, he says it needs to go deep and wide.
“We need to talk about a look into a whole of government response, some of the lessons learned around the managed isolation facilities, how many and where they were. There’s some technical stuff we didn’t do very well. It took us time to lock into that it was a respiratory, airborne virus rather than you touch a surface and all of that,” he says.
Dr Jansen says.
He says there will be more pandemics in future, and New Zealand needs to know how to prepare.
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