NSW Health Minister Ryan Park has condemned footage he called one of the 'most vile, shocking and appalling videos' he'd ever seen, after a man and woman claiming to be NSW doctors, but identified as nurses, were filmed on cam-chat site ChatRuletka declaring they would refuse to treat Israeli people and allegedly bragging about killing Israeli patients presented to their ward.
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00:00One of the most vile, shocking and appalling videos I have ever seen.
00:06Two individual healthcare workers behaving in a way that I never thought I would see
00:15representing one of our New South Wales hospitals.
00:19This video is disgusting, it is shocking, it is appalling.
00:26I say to the people of New South Wales, but in particular to the Jewish community, I as
00:34the New South Wales Health Minister and Susan as the Secretary, am so very sorry that you
00:40are having to deal with this this morning.
00:43What role did they play in the hospital?
00:47Nurses.
00:48And you say they have been stood down immediately?
00:53Stood down immediately, obviously the investigative process now takes place.
00:59I don't want to leave a slither, a slither of light to allow any of them to be able to
01:07think that they will ever work for New South Wales Health again.
01:11So that investigation with Strikeforce Pearl, obviously supported by Susan and the team
01:18at New South Wales Health, has already commenced, but the two individuals are nurses at Bankstown
01:25Hospital.
01:26Did they come forward to you or did you say, well send the video, it's you two?
01:30No, what happened this morning at about 7.20, the video was sent to me.
01:36We immediately, through my office, made contact with the Secretary.
01:41She in turn then informed the Chief Executives of a range of different hospitals and a range
01:48of different local health districts to try and identify who the two individuals were.
01:52We've got 180,000 people, so we've tried to get onto that as quickly as possible.
01:58Very helpfully, they were identified very, very quickly.
02:02At the same time, Susan was also speaking with New South Wales Police.
02:08Given the serious ramifications and given the serious and vile and disgusting commentary,
02:15this went beyond an employer looking at this.
02:19It needed law enforcement to examine this.
02:23And that is why we made the decision immediately to contact New South Wales Police.
02:29Subject to that, I've also spoken to the Health Care Complaints Commissioner, because I believe
02:34there will be a role at some point for that agency to be involved.
02:40Have they given an explanation?
02:42Have they given any explanation for their behaviour?
02:44Well, I don't know what explanation any of these individuals could possibly give that
02:52in any way would justify this disgusting, vile behaviour.
02:57They certainly haven't said anything to me, but I won't be speaking to them.
02:59Is there any indication at this stage that some of the claims they made in the video
03:03about killing or hurting Jewish patients is true?
03:07No, there's not.
03:09Susan has done what is a rapid examination of patient incidents and patient safety issues
03:16over the last 12 months at Bankstown.
03:20There is no evidence that they are any different or any more of those incidents at Bankstown
03:28than anyone else.