Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a … Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding Counties Manukau District Health Board (CMDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for failures in its care of a child later diagnosed with a rare brain tumour. The child, aged 5-6 years at the time of these events, was under the care of CMDHB’s paediatric service. Her family took her to the public hospital on multiple occasions with symptoms of persistent abdominal pain, vomiting and headache. Later, she developed neurological symptoms including slurred speech.