For the 3rd time in a little over two years, Waikato DHB has been ‘outed’ employing a dodgy USA ‘psychiatrist’.
The latest in the DHB’s Dishonour Roll is Dr Robert Ivan Fink, lately of Everett, Washington State.
Fink was employed by Waikato DHB’s Adult Mental Health Services in August 2015, despite having an outstanding complaint against him in the USA – a complaint he has now been placed under disciplinary procedures for.
He was employed by the DHB at exactly the time the bogus “Dr” Mohammed Siddiqui saga was playing out at the DHB and in the Hamilton courts.
Siddiqui was employed shortly after Dr Paul Fox was sacked by the DHB, having been discovered to have been disbarred in two US states.
Both earlier cases worked with Adult Mental Health Services, and Fox had been the principle psychiatrist for our son, Nicky Stevens, and set up the ‘treatment’ regime he was under at the time of his death after being given an unescorted ‘smoke break’ from the DHB’s Henry Bennett Centre.
Nicky’s parents Jane Stevens and Dave Macpherson said “It seems clear that this outfit couldn’t manage its way out of a wet paper bag.”
“They are incapable of learning from, let alone admitting, their mistakes; and people are being harmed by their systemic management failures.”
“Our son paid the ultimate price – how many more will be hurt?”
“It’s time the expensive CEO of this hopeless outfit was got rid of, and his Yes Minister Board.”
Stevens and Macpherson said “Last year, Health Minister Coleman ordered a Claytons’ review of the DHB’s mental health services, which predictably said everything was hunky dory – how will he explain this one away?”
