Suspected alcohol poisoning victim at Fiji Resort speaks to the ABC

It has been confirmed that the Prime Minister of Fiji wants medical testing to be redone.

Transcript

00:00It had been months before Suzanne or her family and the other members of the group who were

00:07admitted after the incident at the Warwick, it had been months before they had heard from

00:11anyone, including Fijian authorities, about what was the cause of their illness.

00:15But in early March, Prime Minister Sitiveni Rumbuka spoke to the ABC and in the interview

00:21said that he wanted to get to the bottom of what happened during that suspected poisoning

00:27incident and it was that interview that prompted Suzanne to reach out to the ABC.

00:32It has been very difficult over the last two to three weeks to get Fijian authorities to

00:36talk to us about some of the allegations that Suzanne had made.

00:40And the most important of these allegations was, in fact, supported by evidence cited by

00:45the ABC that, in actual fact, independent testing of both Suzanne's blood and urine samples as

00:53well as samples taken from the resort had not been sent to New Zealand scientific research

01:00institutions as had been said by Fijian authorities.

01:03Well, what we understand now from having spoken to the Prime Minister is that he will instigate

01:08a government agency and he would like all of the government departments to be sharing information

01:13with each other and to the public and the press about what actually happened immediately after

01:18that incident and about what the results of independent as well as local police investigations have

01:25turned out.

01:26And we will keep you updated as to the progress of those investigations.