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Gisborne Hospital now ‘appropriately staffed’ with 60 new trained nurses

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Sixty locally and internationally trained nurses have swelled Gisborne Hospital’s nurse numbers to 400 over the past seven months.

Hospital lead Bhargav Srinivasan says over the past three years Gisborne Hospital has been part of a worldwide nursing shortage.

National and local initiatives have been set up in an effort to reduce vacancies.

“We’re strongly committed to retaining, developin...


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Peter Jones
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24 January 2024
Many of the 60 new nurses arriving at Gisborne Hospital qualified in India or the Philippines.
No disrespect to the workers involved but that is short-sighted thinking.
These people are going to have an impact on real estate prices for a start off.
The real estate community must be laughing.
Why didn't they train local people?
It's an agenda, that's why.
The deep state wants "diversity". They want us to be like Europe.
If we don't stand up soon the Gisborne of the future will be unrecognisable.
These newcomers do not share our cultural beliefs.
There will be an induction ceremony where the Mayor will smile and give them her blessing.
NZ simply cannot afford the 100,000 migrants that just came in from countries like India and the Philippines. We do not have the housing and the infrastructure and some them can't even speak English let alone Maori.
I don't blame National because Labour was doing it too.
I blame the push towards creation of a feudal technocracy in general.
This definitely isn't about the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders.
Our own leaders at local and national level are the very ones who are cutting our own throats.
They talk net-zero and then bring in more foreign people.

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