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Russell Broadbent seeks answers to 20% increase in cardiac arrests by advocating investigation to include vaccine mandates

As your Independent Federal Member for Monash, I reflect on past efforts to reduce childbirth deaths. Today, facing a 20% rise in cardiac arrests, I advocate for thorough investigation, including vaccine mandates.

By news@gippsland - 23rd April 2024 - Back to News

Russell Broadbent here, your Independent Federal Member for Monash. One hundred years ago, in country areas across Victoria and Australia, 20% of women were dying in childbirth, as compared to those women in the city who only had a 3% chance of death after childbirth.

Amid Australia's unexplained excess deaths, Russell Broadbent contacted Health Minister Mark Butler to explore whether Covid-19 vaccine mandates could be investigated

Rural healthcare history

The country communities were so outraged by this that local and state governments created bush nursing hospitals across country areas in Victoria and Australia, and reduced the incidences of deaths through childbirth to 3% - the same as their city cousins.

So when I read in the Herald Sun recently a report that there's been a 20% increase in cardiac arrests in Victoria since 2019, and that 95% of patients are dying, I was reminded of the mortality rates amongst women all those years ago.

Cardiac arrest concerns

If that's not shocking enough, the proposed response is to push for more first aid training and defibrillators. But as in the past, we must ask: what is the root cause of this massive spike in cardiac arrests? I don't know if it's the covid injection. But if it's not, surely we must ask ourselves why? Why is there a 20% increase in cardiac arrests over the past 5 years?

Given Australia's unexplained excess deaths, I have written to the Hon Mark Butler - the Minister for Health - to ask if his department is willing to include Covid-19 vaccine mandates in their scope of investigation into the possible cause of this very disturbing trend. I ask these questions as I have done for 3 years. Without judgement of anybody, only asking why. That's justice as I see it.

Pictures from Russell Broadbent MP website.

Source: http://gippsland.com/

Published by: news@gippsland.com

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