![](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/NNP2P44QGGQWALD7UDXRSHEUH4.jpg?auth=645eaf2b584b1414a52cd68cc9697fc072c19d6b3407f18afbff415524fd3c10&width=16&height=4&quality=70&smart=true)
Counties Manukau District Health Board is in talks with ACC to recover costs associated with treating the victims of the 2019 Whakaari/White Island volcanic eruption.
The eruption on December 9 saw a number of the injured transferred to the National Burn Centre at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.
Twenty-one people died in the eruption and 26 were injured, many receiving severe burns.
A report to the DHB's combined committee from April outlined the costs involved in treating the burns victims, which totalled about $11.2 million.