NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL CRISIS

This website is created to raise awareness about the crisis in New Zealand hospitals with regard to care for stroke patients as well as the elderly. According to the OECD, "New Zealand is almost level pegging with Mexico, Poland and Romania for hospital deaths for hemorrhagic strokes," Stroke foundation Issue 14 summer 2008... There have been several complaints against two Nelson hospitals, which include a complaint about an elderly stroke patient, Colleen De Valera. Colleen's treatment at the two hospitals went against both the Ministry of Health and the Stroke Foundation protocols for stroke victims. The patient's daughter, Registered Nurse Su Wyatt termed the treatment of her mother in two of the hospitals "barbaric and extremely cruel". Su Wyatt has worked as a nurse in India, Guatemala and in the United States. She said that she had found better care in the third world countries than in her homeland of New Zealand.