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| December 17, 2009 | | Indian origin member of New Zealand health board suspended over email row | | Auckland: An Indian-origin board member of New Zealand's Waikato District Health Board (DHB) has been suspended
for refusing to apologise for his controversial e-mail in which he questioned the integrity of his fellow board members and the DHB management. Dr Suresh Vatsyayann,
an elected member of the Waikato DHB, sent out an email to board members where
he questioned the integrity of members and the management. He has regularly criticised
the DHB in the media, including posts in an online blog. Stuff.co.nz quoted Waikato
DHB Chairman Graeme Milne as saying that Dr Vatsyayann had failed to respond to
the request to withdraw the comments and had been suspended until an "appropriate
apology" had been received. "The DHB is a billion dollar organisation with more
than 5800 staff... Those people, the DHB staff, management and board members deserve
to have board members with the highest professional and ethical standards," he
added. "Dr Vatsyayann's behaviour was well below those standards." Dr Vatsyayann
refused to issue any statement in media, but said he would respond via his website,
freegp.net.nz this evening. Earlier this year, Dr Vatsyayann, who runs his own
private practice, was found guilty of producing false or misleading medical notes
by the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal. He appealed the allegations,
which a judge upheld in August. |
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