November 11, 2024

Report on unethical practices sparks outrage

Gideon Porter Posted On November 11, 2024

Gideon Porter Lady Tureiti Moxon | Report on unethical practices sparks outrage

Māori health advocate Lady Tureiti Moxon says a damning report on the obstetrics and gynecology theatres at North Shore Hospital is too little, too late.

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Māori health advocate Lady Tureiti Moxon says a damning report on the obstetrics and gynecology theatres at North Shore Hospital is too little, too late.

The Health and Disability Commissioner has criticized the hospital for years of allowing anesthetized patients to be examined and treated by medical students without consent.

Lady Tureiti Moxon, Managing Director of one of the country’s largest Māori health organizations, Te Kōhao Health, says it’s appalling that this issue is only being exposed publicly 12 years later.

“You know to give a free-for-all when someone’s under anaesthetic, it’s just not on. And I don’t agree at all with the fact that the medical fraternity if you like, think it’s okay to do that,” says Moxon.

Lady Moxon says it’s as if the medical profession learned nothing from the 1980s Cartwright Cervical Inquiry into unethical practices at National Women’s Hospital.