Bay of Plenty region has one of the highest decline rates of immunisations as Covid-19 vaccine rolls out
14 Feb, 2021 05:00 PM
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The Covid-19 vaccine will be given to border workers from Saturday of next week, PM Jacinda Ardern told reporters today.
The Covid-19 vaccine will be given to border workers from Saturday of next week, PM Jacinda Ardern told reporters today.
One in 10 children in the Bay of Plenty didn t get vaccinated against dangerous diseases because their parents declined treatment.
However, one doctor has concerns the decline rate in children would be much larger with adults as the Covid-19 vaccine becomes available.
Revealed: What St John ambulance was called to in Bay of Plenty in 2020
3 Feb, 2021 11:00 PM
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The Covid-19 lockdown is believed to be the main reason ambulance callouts in the Bay of Plenty were down in 2020. Photo / File
The Covid-19 lockdown is believed to be the main reason ambulance callouts in the Bay of Plenty were down in 2020. Photo / File
Demand for ambulance services in the Bay of Plenty is climbing, particularly for people suffering heart problems, strokes or abdominal pains. New data from St John shows the number of callouts in the Lakes District related to abdominal pains rose from 405 to 536 while callouts for strokes increased from 252 to 312.
Tuesday, 26 January 2021, 8:29 am
A woman inspired to give blood after losing her mum in a
road traffic accident is just one of a team of ‘heroes’
at Tauranga Hospital who have been recognised by the NZ
Blood Service.
The NZ Blood Service presented Tauranga
Hospital’s Team Red with a trophy on Wednesday (20
January) for being the Bay of Plenty work group with the
largest number of blood donations, 838, up to the end of
2020.
Typist Cally Stratton is one of 46 donors who
form the team. She was just 15 when her mum was involved in
a head-on collision, an incident which changed her life
Thursday, 21 January 2021, 9:17 am
A one-stop-shop cardiology centre opened four years ago
is delivering on its promise to bring care closer to home
for Bay of Plenty heart patients.
The dedicated
Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (Cath Lab) at Tauranga
Hospital took its first patient on the afternoon of Monday
16 January 2017. In the four years since the dedicated
facility opened, staff there have performed 1000
Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCIs). It brings the
number of PCIs, more commonly known as stents, performed in
total at Tauranga Hospital to 2000.
“The milestone
of 2000 PCIs has taken since 2012 to reach. So that’s five
years for the first thousand and now four years for the
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