New health committee

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 447, 4 August 1992, Page 5

New health committee

A new Waimarino Community Health Watch Committee was appointed at a public meeting held at Ruapehu College last Thursday night. The new committee will include five members of the former committee and twelve new members. They are: Jenny Dekker, Carole Harford, Kate Lourie, Lesley Proude, Dorothy Scarrow, Justine Adams, Alison Anderson, Ari Bron, Chris Brown,

Mary Cranston, George Drayton, Lynne Fetzer, Peggy Frew, Janet Griffith, Margaret Martin, Yvonne Trigell, and Margot Webb. Manawatu-Wanganui Area Health Board Commissioner Maurice Sexton was the guest speaker at the meeting. He provided an update on the health reforms, with particular reference to the role of the Regional Health Authority and the recently established Crown Health Enterprise Advisory Committee. He also emphasised the importance of Community Health (Watch) Committees to the Board and said that he would personally like to see the committees continue working in the new health system. Jenny Dekker, chairperson of the former CHWC, presented a report on the activities of the committee . between 1989 and 1992. These included keeping a 'Watch' on a wide range of health issues affecting the community, holding a number of highly successful health promotion events (including a melanoma awareness day, a heart health day and an asthma information caravan) and working with Ruapehu mayor Garrick 1 Workman and the Mayoral Task Force on the govemment's health reforms. The committee's first meeting will be held in Raetihi on 17 Aueust.