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MIQ joint head Megan Main said the team considered all the information that was provided. and based their decision on whether it met the emergency allocation criteria. Criteria for emergency applications included “a serious risk to health or safety . for the applicant or their dependant, which requires urgent travel to New Zealand”, the MIQ website said. Mahoney, 54, flew to the US in late June for major surgery to remove surgical mesh on July 2. She hoped the procedure would finally free her from a life of chronic pain and disability. A procedure to treat pelvic organ prolapse in 2006 with multiple mesh devices went badly wrong for the former radiographer.