When Kimberley Dreyer s father was placed in the high dependency unit in Waikato Hospital on life support late last month, she scrambled to get from Queensland to be with him.
Under emergency allocation criteria brought in the following week, she could apply to skip the 10-week queue for managed isolation spaces and begin the process within seven days.
The application proved more difficult than she expected, when the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment requested a letter from a medical practitioner stipulating his life expectancy. My response to them was well, he s on life support and we ve been told immediate family have been contacted to attend - so I m guessing it s any day now.
Some hospitals say assessing life expectancy of patients is impossible and won t provide these.
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MBIE wants the supporting evidence in applications for an emergency allocation to skip the queue for managed isolation.
But in some cases hospitals won t provide life expectancy information, arguing it is too difficult to say.
When Kimberley Dreyer s father was placed in the high dependency unit in Waikato Hospital on life support late last month, she scrambled to get from Queensland to be with him.
Under emergency allocation criteria brought in the following week, she could apply to skip the 10-week queue for managed isolation spaces and begin the process within seven days.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Relatives struggle with life expectancy requirement for urgent MIQ places
22 Dec, 2020 08:10 PM
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In some cases hospitals won t provide life expectancy information, arguing it is too difficult to say. Photo / 123RF
RNZ
By Katie Todd of RNZ
New Zealanders needing fast entry into the country to be with dying relatives are being tripped up by demands for proof of life expectancy.
MBIE wants the supporting evidence in applications for an emergency allocation to skip the queue for managed isolation.
But in some cases hospitals won t provide life expectancy information, arguing it is too difficult to say.
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