Protesters target Health Minister Simeon Brown over Dunedin hospital plan
The health minister was confronted on Friday by noisy protesters after his announcement about the new Dunedin Hospital, with one protester hitting his car with their placard.
Simeon Brown said the new $1.8 billion hospital will have 351 beds – 59 fewer than originally proposed, but with capacity to expand to 404 beds over time.
Brown said the plan would deliver certainty to the people of Dunedin, within the budget.
About 100 protesters gathered at the site of the announcement, chanting throughout.
As Brown left, protesters blocked his exit, yelling at his car, accusing him of lying, and chanting “build it once, build it right”, as well as “public health, not private wealth”.
Protesters were moved back by police.
He should face protests!
This wasn’t ‘certainty’. A word he used 25 times during the press conference.
It was about ‘surrender’, he’s amputating public health, he’s not saving it…
The rebuild was paused last year after a report estimated costs could climb to $3 billion; the government’s budget is about $1.9b.
…Simeon Brown is the Minister of Health because he’s prepared to cut things Dr Shane Reti wasn’t.
Note, they have $14billion for tax cuts we can’t afford and $3billion for Landlords and hundreds of millions for Big Tobacco, but not enough for Dunedin Hospital despite promising people they would fully fund it.
This isn’t a celebration, it’s a bloody funeral for public health…
Specialist disappointed older people being let down over Dunedin Hospital revamp
The new hospital will open with 351 inpatient beds – 59 fewer than originally proposed, but with capacity to expand to 404 beds over time.
There will also be a staged delivery of more operating theatres and imaging services like Xrays and MRI although no timeline was given.
…less beds, operating theatres and imaging services so the majority gets $12 extra a week?
How does a Big Mac combo per week in tax cuts make up for a smaller Dunedin Hospital?
How’s that hard right Government passing laws for their donor mates feeling now sleepy hobbits?
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Meanwhile ; AO/NZ =14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires each with a net minimum of $50 million and the feeding grounds of four now Australian owned banks being ANZ, ASB, BNZ and Westpac which are reportedly the second most profitable banks in the world only to Canada.
One day we Kiwis will wake the fuck up and heads will roll and fires will burn.
The Press.
NZ banks ‘some of the most profitable in the world’
https://www.thepress.co.nz/business/350094635/nz-banks-some-most-profitable-world
So yeah, fuck you Dunedin. And what is it about old white perverts and money?
‘ Looking back ‘ : David Lange, Roger Douglas, Ron Brierley and the BNZ
https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/the-life/looking-back-david-lange-roger-douglas-ron-brierley-and-the-bnz
RNZ
Former ACT Party president and convicted sex offender Tim Jago’s name suppression went on too long – advocate
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/540588/former-act-party-president-and-convicted-sex-offender-tim-jago-s-name-suppression-went-on-too-long-advocate
And so? Yes? Hello? Anyone out there? I can write the above shit ad nauseam and nothing. The echo chamber is so devoid of passion and thinking that even echo’s go in there and are then lost forever.
What you read above is damning evidence of corruption, greed and perversions at a level almost unimaginable, especially for a tiny population such as ours yet involves such vast amounts of money, money fingered by perverts! What the fuck’s it going to take to get fingers out of arse’s? tim jago, some lube and a winch? Look! Withering into the shadows to do a spot of hand wringing isn’t going to fix things. We need to fix things. Things, need fixing! Urgently too before donald decides he needs to buy AO/NZ.
Taken Simeon only a few days to do what the Labour Government couldn’t in 6 years
A human dynamo our Simeon.
Right on Bob.Perhaps if Labour had not stuffed around so much the hospital would have been started years ago and built within the original budget.
Small man ,smaller hospital ,smaller foot paths ,smaller cycle ways .No new roads delivered and unlikely too be ,no more new hospitals ,no health care for over 65s .
The only thing big is his ego and the new Jag he gets driven around in and the police escort he needs because he is a cunt .
The woeful blind ignorance of quite a high percentage of N.Z.’s population is….well….woeful.
Probably one of the least sophisticated 1st world countries on the planet…ripe for exploitation…yeah nah…yes!!
The majority did not get $12 in tax cuts.
They gave the right hand a $12 income tax reduction and attacked the left hand with a $43 car rego tax increase.
That’s $31 tax revenue per car owner they handout to landlords.
Right on point.
The Christchurch hospital rebuild and renovation and refurbishment with same playbook by national over Dunedin, Whangarei, nelson and the Hawkes bay.
Downgrade what labour promised to build and had progressed to be built.
The Hawkes bay announcement on the same day was only for new gear not the
full hospital rebuild they need.
Our total hospital rebuild plans are being decimated by this coalition of clowns.
This pipsqueak of a minister can go get stuffed.
Build the damn hospitals the experts want not what you think they want.
Right on point.
The Christchurch hospital rebuild and renovation and refurbishment with same playbook by national over Dunedin, Whangarei, nelson and the Hawkes bay.
Downgrade what labour promised to build and had progressed to be built.
The Hawkes bay announcement on the same day was only for new gear not the
full hospital rebuild they need.
Our total hospital rebuild plans are being decimated by this coalition of clowns.
This pipsqueak of a minister can go get stuffed.
Build the damn hospitals the experts want not what you think they want.