Whakaari after its eruption in 2019.
Photo: Supplied/Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust
This comes amid calls for millions of dollars of promised mental health funding to be urgently re-routed to Canterbury and the Bay of Plenty.
Irene Begg, a trauma counsellor based near Whakatāne, was involved in the mental health response to the Whakaari eruption and the Christchurch mosque shooting.
She said the same problems of people suffering from vicarious trauma, struggling access to access funded mental health support, have cropped up in both tragedies, while hospital workers and emergency service staff could access counselling through their employer.
ACC only covered work-related mental injury and mental injury that was the result of a physical injury. Extended family members were not covered for funded counselling.
Press Release – Bay of Plenty District Health Board Luke Gray has been recognised as a local hero for his work supporting young peoples mental health in his community of Whakatne. The Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) Occupational Therapist Luke said he was honoured and humbled …
Luke Gray has been recognised as a ‘local hero’ for his work supporting young people’s mental health in his community of Whakatāne.
The Bay of Plenty District Health Board (BOPDHB) Occupational Therapist Luke said he was honoured and humbled to receive a prestigious Kiwibank Local Hero of the Year Award – Te Pou Toko o te Tau. The award recognises everyday people doing extraordinary things in their local hapori – communities over the past year.
Foreigners get $5.22m in treatment from Bay of Plenty hospitals, DHB writes off debts worth million
10 Jan, 2021 11:41 PM
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Foreigners have received just over $204.4 million worth of hospital treatment in the past five years. Photo / Getty
Bay of Plenty Times
Humanity, not money, should be the priority when it comes to hospital care for visitors to New Zealand, says a Tauranga iwi leader. Foreigners have had more than $204.4 million worth of hospital treatment in New Zealand in the past five years, and taxpayers have had to foot the bill for about a third of that between July 2015 and June 2020, excluding GST.