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An agreement to open the clinic was approved by the Canterbury District Health Board (CDHB) last week, and would open next month, Ngatai said. He expected the clinic could vaccinate 150 to 200 people per day and would focus on Māori, Pacific, and “the high needs community in east Christchurch”. As of May 6, the CDHB was operating 10 Covid-19 vaccination clinics for border and MIQ workers and their household contacts, frontline health care workers, and people who lived in communal environments where there was a higher risk of Covid-19 spreading. The risk of dying from Covid-19 was at least 50 per cent higher for Māori than people from European backgrounds, according to research published in the ....
She would have liked the opportunity to make the decision to follow her doctor or to stay at the practice before the staff left. “You spend years building a rapport with your doctor. We should have been given the chance to consult with our doctor, so we could make decisions on what we were going to do.” The exodus of clinical staff follows the resignation of the centre’s directors in November last year. In December, Te Rūnanganui o Te Āti Awa announced that chief executive Wirangi Luke had been appointed as the centre’s sole director. Luke said the medical centre had run as a separate business for the last 12 years, but late last year it became clear that the centre had financial issues and the rūnanga, aligned with Waiwhetu Marae, had to take control of it. ....
Matthew Tso/Stuff Angus Gibb is a patient enrolled at Waiwhetu Medical Centre where the sudden announcement that 15 staff have quit has patients concerned about their access to primary health care. The handling of a “mass resignation” of clinical staff at a community medical centre has left patients concerned about their access to primary health care. Fifteen staff at Waiwhetu Medical Centre in Lower Hutt have quit with patients receiving letters informing them “the majority of the doctors and nurses” had left on January 15. Some of the 4500 patients on the centre’s books say their letters arrived after January 15. Angus Gibb is one of those who received their letter late. He regularly visits the centre for arthritis and chronic fatigue syndrome, and said the thought that there might not be anyone available to see him or issue prescriptions was a concern. ....