According to reports, a worker of the Wellington Hospital pinched a large number of patients’ records that were found decaying in a Porirua house for six years.

Six cartons that had around 800 documents were stolen by medical records clerk, Taofiga "Junior" Sa. It is weird that the patients, whose records were burgled, were never informed about it.

It is reported that Capital & Coast District Health Board did not look into the matter seriously, when whistleblower Roger Jackson, an ex-medical records clerk, reported the matter to The Dominion Post. They were first notified of the robbery in 2006 – four years after they were stolen.

In 2008, Mr. Jackson disclosed the matter formally. It was then that an internal inquiry was launched and the records were retrieved by the officials.

Mr. Jackson was working in the medical records department till the previous year. He said that he first came to know about the robbery on Mr. Sa's last day of work, in April 2004.

Jackson said, "He informed me that he had removed many boxes of patient information filing from the medical records department and had taken it to his home at Porirua”.

The health board said that when Mr. Jackson had informed his manager of the theft, action should have been taken there and then.