$1,900 per measles vaccination
Shane Reti released:
The botched $20 million measles vaccine catch-up programme is worse than it appears, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says.
“The other week it was revealed that $8 million of measles vaccines were left unused and had expired.
The level of waste in this Government is unbelievable.
“However, information shows that only 11,206 people of the targeted 300,000 received the vaccine – representing a cost of nearly $1900 per person and reaching only 3 per cent of the targeted population.
They spent $20 million and ended up vaccinating just 3% of unvaccinated people for an average cost of almost $2,000 each.
“It was also revealed that Labour spent $1.8 million on public relations to frame a campaign ‘with a particular focus on MÄori and Pacific people’, yet only 1181 MÄori received the vaccine – a PR cost of $1,500 per person.
“Worse still, to date the programme costs show that $2.2 million has been spent on public relations while only $1.61 million was spent on actually delivering the vaccine to MÄori.
Sums up the Government – all spin, no delivery.