What's Health watch?

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 456, 6 October 1992, Page 5

What's Health watch?

How healthy are members of our community? Are our health needs being met? What of the future of the Waimarino Health Centre? How do we address these and other health-related issues relevant to the Waimarino District? By taking them to the Community Health Watch Committee (CHWC). The CHWC meet once a month to discuss health concerns in the Waimarino. The committee is made up of members of the public. The CHWC objectives are to: • Find out the health needs of the Waimarino and to make recommendations to the Area Health Board Commissioner Maurice Sexton. • To provide a link between the community and the Area Health Board. • To promote health through various community activities. • To be accessible to various health-related groups in the community so that groups may work

together rather than in isolation. • To encourage community involvement in planning, policy making and monitoring for health. The CHWC meets every 3rd Monday of the month in either Raetihi or Ohakune - see advertisement in Bulletin the week prior to meetings. All meetings are open to the public so if you have a health-related concern this is a good place to come and put your point of view forward. Members of the committee can also be contacted so that they can pass on your worries or concerns regarding Health Care in the Waimarino. Members of the committee are: Jenny Dekker, chairperson; Justine Adams, correspondence secretary; Kate Lourie, minutes secretary; Alison Anderson, publicity officer; Ari Bron, Chris Brown, Mary Cranston, George Drayton, Lynne Fetzer, Peggy Frew, Janet

Griffith, Carole Harford, Margaret Martin, Lesley Proude, Dorothy Scarrow, Yvonne Trigell and Margot Webb. The next meeting will be held at Ohakune Kindergarten at 7.30pm on 19 October.