Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 4:29 pm
The Health Select Committee of Parliament responded late
last month to the petition (signed by more than 46,000
people) for a rescue helicopter to be based on the
Coromandel over the busy holiday periods. The committee took
into account written and verbal submissions from both the
National Ambulance Sector Office (NASO) and Whitianga
residents Stephan Bosman (the “petitioner”), Walter
Russell and Kevin Pringle.
The Select Committee’s
response to the petition is promising. They recognised
“…the complexity of delivering road and air ambulance
services in regions like the Coromandel, with widely
dispersed populations, separated by rural and often winding
Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 4:29 pm | Coromandel Rescue Helicopter Trust The Health Select Committee of Parliament responded late last month to the petition
(signed by more than 46,000 people) for a rescue helicopter to be based on the Coromandel
over the busy holiday periods. The committee took into account written and verbal . More
Wednesday, 4 July 2012, 1:21 pm | Coromandel Rescue Helicopter Trust
A newly formed charitable trust in the Coromandel will see a new Rescue Helicopter
hangar built at Whitianga by Labour Weekend 2012. The Coromandel Rescue Helicopter
Trust’s first task will be fundraising for the new hangar, which is proposed to . More
REGIONAL
Sharnae Hope18:12, Jul 05 2021
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Prior to 2019 the Coromandel Rescue Helicopter Trust was based in Whitianga for more than 12 years.
A battle to bring a lifesaving helicopter service back from the dead is heading to the Beehive. For more than a decade a Whitianga-based chopper service was on the spot to fly people out of potentially deadly situations until the Ministry of Health axed the service in 2019. Residents have been rallying to return the service ever since and Coromandel MP Scott Simpson is backing them. The ministry has made a deliberate decision to “prioritise Auckland and Northland ahead of people in Coromandel and I don’t think that s good enough”.