Half a billion wasted

The Herald reports:

The Government is being accused of “mind-boggling” mismanagement because it has $531 million worth of rapid antigen tests (RATs) still in stock. …

Te Whatu Ora has almost 60 million RATs around the country, with 30 per cent of them already expired or due to expire by the end of July. The total cost of all of these RATs, at almost $9 each on average, is $530 million.

$530 million is more than the cost of the proposed new medical school at Waikato University, which the Government says can’t be afforded.

It is around one third of the cost of the new Dunedin Hospital, which the Government is downgrading as it says it can’t afford to spend more.

Such shocking waste.