Under-fire Southern District Health Board member Ilka Beekhuis has resigned. Her position became untenable this morning after Radio New Zealand reported that Ms Beekhuis had emailed Countdown supermarkets, naming herself as an SDHB member, to protest its considering mandatory vaccination of staff. "I have decided to resign from my elected position with the Southern District Health Board,'' she said in a statement. Ilka BeekhuisShe shared many of the views of the health board but not all, and had recently not been able to reconcile these positions, she said. The SDHB also confirmed yesterday that as of Monday 95% of all SDHB staff had had a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and 92% were fully vaccinated.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 11, 2021 12:41 UTC