White Island and ACC

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With this & the woman whose ACC payments  were stopped & the yuong woman cancer survivor in need of a prosthetic,it seems clear that changes are needed to ACC. 


https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...nding.html

"A Te Kūiti grandmother who's had the bottom half of her body amputated left her 'home' of two years today after ACC pulled the funding. 

Bev McIndoe, 58, was hoping ACC would fund her room at the Waitomo Lodge for one more year, while her fit-for-purpose house was built. But ACC won't extend the payments and McIndoe moved out on Friday morning. 

For two years Room 16 at Waitomo Lodge was McIndoe's home, her sanctuary, but now she's been forced to leave because ACC pulled the funding for it."



https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala...rgery.html

"All that Greymouth woman Brittany Kremers has wanted is to live a normal life and to look and feel normal, but she's lived with pain and facial disfigurement for two decades after being diagnosed with an aggressive cancer as a child.

Brittany hoped a prosthetic would mean she could lead a more normal life, but ACC has declined her claim to fund post-surgery treatment. She remains in painful medical limbo."

ACC have been pretty brutal in regards to the Te Kuiti woman whose impairments are clearly results of her motorcycle accident but I do struggle to see how ACC should be liable for the expected collateral damage resulting from cancer treatments in the Kremers case. ACC is intended for coverage from accidental injuries (as its name implies) so I would have thought not-unexpected post cancer issues to be a health sector dispute rather than the rather long bow that's being drawn towards ACC in this case.