we had an appointment at ChCh Womens hospital (partner was pregnant), we mistakenly thought it’ld be safe to leave our in the hospital ward – while we went to the appointment
- lucky for my child the appointment finished early

when we came back to ChCh public Hospital (a few days before my two year old child had been put in a room by herself, -not the the big ward rooms with other patients or witness)
as we entered her room there was a ‘bureau nurse’ a nurse i’ld never seen before (not one of the regular nurses from the ward) she had a kettle of hot boiled water in one hand in her other hand was my childs open gastronomy tube(plastic tube that leads straight into the stomach) just about to pour it down

I immediately asked her ‘what the fuck are you doing?’
she replied she was just going to clean her gastronomy tube,
i said are you a idiot thats boiling hot water
she left the room, walked down the corridor – and never returned – she did not stay on the ward to complete a shift

my first thoughts were how could she be so stupid – after she left – never to return it occurred to me what had actually happened, what we had just witnessed
the boiling water would of in all likelihood of have killed her, the implications were huge, we the parents would have got the blame, (framed, imprisoned for a crime we never committed) as we were doing ALL her gastronomy cares, and to rub salt in the wound my unborn son would have been taken from us as well –
what we wittnessed was not in the catorgory of a medical mishap but that THE STATE WILL MURDER INNOCENT CHILDREN TO COVER MEDICAL MISHAPS
since that very day, we have come up against brick walls and EXTREME discrimination from Government Depts eg: 9 months to get a disability allowance processed, review after review after review(this is ALL on Govt record – they keep documents, I have copies as well, this is just the tip of the ice berg) we seem to be the only New Zealander’s in this entire country of 4 million people who cannot receive entitlements that by law – ALL other citizens take for granted and can access with ease

i’ve had to live with this discrimination and the fear of myself and families well being for the last 16 years, dead people don’t talk, for a long time i’ve kept quiet out of fear for myself and family, but the discrimination still happens, today, which indicates they’re not prepared to forget or leave us alone either, i believe having told others and keeping files of my child Hospital records of their mistakes with others is the reason i and my family are still here
my only crime i can see for deserving this Govt discrimination was walking in and preventing my child from being killed – and yes i’ld do again in bat of an eyelid
People Need To Know
we’re lucky my is childs alive -but what has been the fate of others?????????

We’ve also started teaching students about cognitive errors in order to give them a vocabulary to describe this type of mistake.