6 Feb 2022

Māori health provision in the teeth of Covid

From Waitangi Day 2024, 11:06 am on 6 February 2022

Māori doctors and health providers have been working tirelessly around Aotearoa to support and encourage Māori whānau to get vaccinated against Covid 19. An important milestone was hit this weekend, 90 per cent of Māori now vaccinated with their first dose. It hasn't been an easy outcome to achieve and with Omicron now here, the push to get eligible whānau "boosted" and tamariki Māori vaccinated has become the goal. 

Joining Māni on the show are Dr Matire Harwood GP at  Papakura Marae and the representative of Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā National Māori Pandemic Group on the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 Technical Advisory Group, and Dr Jason Tuhoe, of the Royal New Zealand College of GPs and the deputy chair of Te Akoranga a Māui. 

South Auckland GP Dr Matire Harwood co-authored a new report in the New Zealand Medical Journal on how the Papakura Marae Health Clinic coped with last year's Delta outbreak.

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