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Kate Hawkesby: Health NZ acknowledging issues and mistakes doesn't actually fix them
It probably comes as no surprise to any of us who watched on from the confines of our homes as the Ministry of Health bungled its way through Covid, that they’ve just discovered a ’coding error’.
It means the number of hospitalisations they recorded was not, in fact, accurate.
Turns out when they said just over 14,000 people were hospitalised with Covid, they meant almost 19,500.
Whoops.
A ‘coding error’ led to the under count. Just the 5,000 odd cases out. No biggie.
Unless you’re interested in accuracy of course, or facts and real hard data, which one assumes a Ministry of Health department…
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