'I was in tears and he was doing things with his phone,' says mesh-injured woman

By Joanne McCarthy
April 9 2019 - 5:30am
Presentation: Therapeutic Goods Administration deputy secretary Professor John Skerritt at a pelvic and hernia mesh forum in Melbourne organised by health consumer groups from across Australia.
Presentation: Therapeutic Goods Administration deputy secretary Professor John Skerritt at a pelvic and hernia mesh forum in Melbourne organised by health consumer groups from across Australia.

ONE of Australia's most senior health bureaucrats is under fire for repeatedly using his phone during an emotional presentation by pelvic and hernia mesh victims at a forum where the Morrison Government was slammed for its response to a series of medical device scandals.

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