Press Release – Office of the Health and Disability Commissioner
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers Rights (the Code) for a number of failures in its …
Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell today released a report finding South Canterbury District Health Board (SCDHB) in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights (the Code) for a number of failures in its care of a woman in 2019.
The woman, aged in her twenties, presented to the Emergency Department (ED) three times with worsening abdominal pain, vomiting and an increasing CRP level – a marker of infection.