15 Jun 2018

National claims Health Minister silencing staff on Middlemore

From Morning Report, 8:38 am on 15 June 2018

National is accusing health Minister David Clark of attempting to gag public servants and tempt them with offers of employment. A voicemail Mr Clark left on the Counties Manukau District Health Board chairman Rabin Rabindran's phone on April the eighteenth simultanously offers him a new job, while also asking him not to comment further on issues with Middlemore hospital. Four buildings at the hospital were found to have serious rot and mould in the walls. National's Jami-Lee Ross talks to Guyon Espiner.