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The muck stops here: Indias Shame GamesGreg FordNEW DELHI

I NSIDEMedal contender cyclistGreg Henderson pulls outof the Games, just hoursbefore the NZOC says it isstill planning to attend.SPORTB32

I NSIDEMedal contender cyclistGreg Henderson pulls outof the Games, just hoursbefore the NZOC says it isstill planning to attend.SPORTB32

Face of the Games: Badminton queenSaina Nehwal was angry at organisers.

Filth and the fury: Photos obtained bythe BBC show the state of bathrooms inthe athletes village.

DELHI and chaos have long beencomfortable bedfellows. But pan-demonium doesnt begin to do jus-tice to what unfolded yesterday asthe fallout continued from Indiasbungled start to the Common-wealth Games.

Delhis breakfast news shows,of which there are many, led amerciless mauling of the Gamesorganising committee, tagging theevent Indias Shame Games.Under the headline The muckstops here, the Times of India ranthe damning images of the filthyrooms in the athletes village.

The embarrassment is palpableand hard questions about the dam-age being done to Indias inter-national image are being asked atevery turn. Two Kiwis are at the

forefront of the debate: chef demission Dave Currie and Com-monwealth Games Federationchief executive Mike Hooper.Photos of both men adorned pageone of the Times .

Currie has become the posterboy for international condem-nation of the event after heexposed the parlous state of the

athletes village. His unliveablequote resonates in Delhi, where ahigh percentage of its 14 millioninhabitants live in tin shacks,m an y o f w hi ch h av e b ee n

bulldozed to make way for theGames.

This was Indias chance toshow how far it has come. Thenations collective embarrassmentcould be seen all over the face of Saina Nehwal, Indias championbadminton player who has therather grandiose title of superambassador for the event.

Her face was contorted in rageyesterday as she asked the ques-tion vexing a nation: How couldthis happen? Instead of directingher anger at Currie, she reserved

it for Delhis handwringing Gamesorganisers and looked genuinelypained when asked about the im-pact of international athletesdeciding not to come. She saimany would now not experiencthe many good things the Gameshad been responsible for.

In that, shes right. Despite thchaos, obvious improvementshave been made. The unpopularlocal organising committee hasbeen shunted aside, to uncon-cealed glee. The more powerfucentral government has waded iand taken charge in a late effort tosave face.

Two hundred and fifty extracleaners have begun to erase thlast traces of what has become thseminal image of the games: thfilthy rooms.

Theres now only one thing lef to do let the real Games begin.

Hundredsof patientrecordsstolenWhistleblower: I was ignored

e NewtonALTH

NDREDS of patients medicalrds were stolen from Welling-Hospital by an employee andlanguishing in a Porirua

se for six years.Six boxes containing about 800

uments, mainly patientsrrals and test results, weren fromthe hospital bymedicalrds clerk Taofiga Junior Sa.

The patients whose files weren were never told about the.nformation provided to The

minion Post by whistleblowerer Jackson, a former medicalrds clerk, shows that Capitaloast District Health Board didproperly investigate when hetold them of the theft in 2006

ur years after they were taken.t was only in 2008, when Mrson made a formal protectedlosure, that a full internal in-gation was started and the

uments were recovered.Health authorities investigatedheft and retrieved the records.

The health board now says ituld have followed it up whenJackson first alerted his man-, but says patients health waser compromised.The privacy commissionerse completed a preliminary in-

igation earlier this year afterJackson complained.t said the theft probablytituted a breach of patients

acy and the fact the healthrd did not follow up initialations was significant.

Mr Jackson, who worked in theical records department untilyear, said he first found out

ut the theft on Mr Sas last daywork in April 2004.

[He] informed me that he hadoved many boxes of patient in-

mation filing from the medicalrds department and had takenhis home at Porirua.

He managed to do this bying the boxes as though theye normal files for Kenepurupital clinics.Mr Jackson said he was con-ed, but did not tell anyone foryears as he was worried thereht be implications if he said

something, and sceptical abouthow it would be dealt with.

In 2006, he finally told his man-ager, who found there weredocuments missing from the areafor which Mr Sa was responsible.

However, the manager did notinvestigate further and seniormanagers were not told there may

have been a theft. In 2008, MrJackson discovered that no properinvestigation had taken place, somade a protected disclosure tothen-chief executive Derek Milne prompting a probe into the theft.

The files were taken in March2002 and recovered only in Octo-ber 2008 from the Porirua housewhere Mr Sa had stored them.

Capital & Coasts clinical andcorporate support services direc-tor, Leena Singh, said the fileswere returned, undamaged, by MrSas associate in the bags theywere taken in.

She refused to say why Mr Sahad taken them, but the healthboard believed he had not doneanything with them.

Police were told of the theft butno charges or other legal actionhad been taken against Mr Sa ashe was overseas and the files hadbeen returned.

No affected patients had beencontacted, she said. As the fileswere hidden, and not accessed byanyone during the time they wereoutside the hospital, we are satis-fied that patient privacy wasmaintained.

Patient safety was not compro-mised as the records were alsoavailable electronically.

However, she agreed staff should have acted sooner to re-trieve the files. In hindsight the[2006] allegation should have beenexplored further.

Ms Singh blamed the delay onscepticism . . . reinforced by theclaimants manner and pattern of accusation.

But Mr Jackson said that wasnot good enough. Shouldnt thesecurity of the patients files betheir first concern?

The privacy commissionersoffice said it was satisfied thehealth board had made changes toprevent a similar theft occurring.

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Doing loop-de-loops

Stacey Wood

Photo: MARTIN DE RUYTER

A PAIR of Indian designers wooed by Wellingtonsworld-class costume extravaganza have taken thetop award at the Montana World of WearableArt.

First-time entrants Yogesh Chaudhary andManas Barve won the Montana Supreme Award, theAmerican Express Open Section and $30,000 worthof prizes at last nights awards ceremony for theirinnovative garment Loops .

Made entirely of merino wool felt, Loops wascreated with laser-cutting and seamless knitting no thread or glue was used in its construction. Itsinterlaced panels cover the models whole body.

Chaudhary said he and Barve both valued sus-tainability. Loops is a garment which demonstratesan organic sense of wholeness.

Their work was one of a record 23 entries fromIndia this year. Renowned designer Vivan Sunda-ram and his partner Pratima Pandey entered sevenpieces the highest number of garments from asingle entrant in the shows history.

Founder Suzie Moncrieff and her sister, compe-tition director Heather Palmer, have gone to Indiathree times to spread the WOW word. On their lasttrip, they ran a stall at Indias equivalent of FashionWeek, where they displayed previous entries andscreened a DVD about the show. Ms Moncrieff said Loops was unlike anything wed ever seen before.

This is the second consecutive year an inter-national designer has won the top prize, after DavidWalker became the first foreign Supreme Awardwinner with Lady of the Wood . His latest entry,Wood, Wire and Fire , was commended in the Gen-Isection.

International designers won 13 of the 35 prizes,but Ms Moncrieff said Kiwi entrants still had thecompetitive edge. They know WOW.

Next years show will be held in August, becauseof the Rugby World Cup.

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