WALLSEND MP Sonia Hornery has called on the state government to intensify investigations into a former Calvary Mater Hospital doctor who underdosed more than 100 cancer patients.
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It emerged this week that Dr John Grygiel, who allegedly underdosed chemotherapy to 129 cancer patients at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital and to 28 people in Orange and Bathurst hospitals, worked at the Calvary Mater from 1986 to 1988.
“I can assure my community I will be raising this with the Health Minister and in the Parliament,” Ms Hornery said on Friday.
“I will be asking Minister Skinner why, after everything that has been revealed to date, she hasn’t undertaken a more thorough investigation into this man. His history in Newcastle was not made public until yesterday.”
Probes into the work of Dr Grygiel have so far been too narrow, Ms Hornery said, and should be broadened to the Hunter where local people would inevitably be concerned.
“There certainly needs to be some ability for people to be able to get answers,” Ms Hornery said.
