Molnar said the only effect had been the additional stress on funding of the systems that support the well-being of the youth. Rory Crawford from Sport Tasman, one of the facilitators of the event agreed: “It’s quite clear that the areas they’ve spoken about have not come about as a result of Covid – they have been ingrained,” he said. “The hui was about truly understanding what the main challenges and areas are that they want to see support and help with, and for the youth to direct us as organisations to action some of those points.” “They did that 100 per cent. I think there’s a lot of exciting information and ideas that came across today.”
“I just got to the point where I thought I don’t have an excuse,” Stocker said. He said his only remaining apprehensions about vaccination were the possible judgement from medical staff and the cost. In 2017, he rolled up his sleeve for a series of vaccines which were free and the nurses “didn t make an issue of it”, he said. “Those apprehensions were very unfounded and that was the last barrier to get through.” Growing up, Stocker said his mum “didn t like the overmedicalisation of everything” and felt her children’s immune systems were healthy enough. During university, he said a flatmate told it to him straight about immunisation.
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Marlborough District Youth Council members Ashleigh McElhinney, left, and Poppy Lane, youth worker Soni Kula, and Nelson Marlborough DHB youth health promoter Reuben Molnar will be involved in a youth hui to be held on Friday at My Space.
“A lot of the times our youth feel like their voices aren t heard or that no-one s listening, but this is definitely a space where we want to listen.” Youth worker Soni Kula is talking about the Youth Hui to be held at Marlborough Youth Trust s My Space on Friday afternoon, February 26. “So we re inviting them to come and speak. We want to hear what s going on, and we want to know what we can do to support them better moving forward,” he said.
Health Minister Andrew Little says a rebuilt Nelson Hospital won t include a change in location. An Indicative Business Case for the project was submitted in May, costed at about $713 million. However, on Friday Little said that rough costing of $713m included “all the bells and whistles, and absolutely everything” and had been sent back for revision. “They ve been told that that s a little bit beyond what was expected, so they’re having a look at that again,” Little said. “I think, what we re saying is: Let s look at actual need and bearing in mind too that our health system is a network so not every hospital has to have absolutely everything.