A returnee undergoing managed isolation at an Auckland hotel has been transferred to hospital after becoming sick.
The Herald understands the patient deve
Dr Bekker spent six years helping a skyrocketing number of at-risk young Aucklanders. Mental health services are doing more with less. We were getting often, month-on-month, more referrals than we ever had before. Yet the amount of clinicians to see those stayed the same, he said.
Resourcing and burn-out issues faced by Dr Bekker and his colleagues were not exclusive to his former workplace, he said, but they were realities for public mental health services across New Zealand.
Dr Bekker left the Auckland DHB earlier in February. He had been in a specialist team helping young people who were self-harming and suicidal.