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Thursday, 4 March 2021, 5:21 pm
Capital & Coast DHB is today excited to announce that
the integrated Child Health Service and new children’s
hospital will be named Te Wao Nui – ‘The Great Forest of
Tāne’ – in recognition of the cultural significance and
life-giving properties that Māori associate with the
forest.
The name will take effect when the service
transitions into the new children’s hospital building from
late 2021 and was developed in collaboration with tamariki,
CCDHB’s Māori Partnership Board, the Wellington Hospitals
Foundation, Child Health staff, and Weta
Workshop.
“Te Wao Nui reflects the ecosystem of
integrated health services designed for the tamariki,
Press Release – Capital and Coast District Health Board
Capital & Coast DHB is today excited to announce that the integrated Child Health Service and new children’s hospital will be named Te Wao Nui – ‘The Great Forest of Tāne’ – in recognition of the cultural significance and life-giving properties that Māori associate with the forest.
The name will take effect when the service transitions into the new children’s hospital building from late 2021 and was developed in collaboration with tamariki, CCDHB’s Māori Partnership Board, the Wellington Hospitals Foundation, Child Health staff, and Weta Workshop.
“Te Wao Nui reflects the ecosystem of integrated health services designed for the tamariki, rangatahi and whānau of central Aotearoa,” said Hutt Valley and Capital & Coast DHBs Chief Executive Fionnagh Dougan.
Days away from giving birth after a high-risk pregnancy, Kiki Van Newtown has experienced first-hand the dire state of our maternal health services. She’s calling on the government to take urgent action.
It’s late on the maternity ward at Wellington Hospital, and I’m curled onto a couch at the end of a dark hallway, trying to figure out a way to explain why every person having a baby, and every baby born, deserves to have the very best support that society can provide. The words aren’t coming even remotely easily, and I’m realising that this feels like begging for scraps. That it doesn’t matter how poetic or visionary my writing is, that appealing to our government to pull us out of the current maternity crisis is not a new call – this crisis has been decades in the making. No amount of hopeful euphemisms or metaphors are going to save us.