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March 28, 2022
New diagnosis model for Māori health centre
Peter Verschaffelt
Posted On March 28, 2022
Download AudioKirikiriroa’s Te Kōhao Health has turned the sod for a new $15 million health and well-being centre.
Managing director Lady Tureiti Moxon says it will adopt processes that put Māori at the front of the queue.
It should lead to more early diagnosis and treatment of the five biggest killers of Māori – breast, lung, cervical and bowel cancer and heart disease.
“A lot of our people don’t actually even get to the starting line so this is our way of saying, this is how it has been like before, we will create it so we have the radiologist, the pathologist and the surgeon in the room at the same time so they can diagnose a lot quicker and a lot sooner,” Lady Moxon says.
The centre should be completed by late 2023 next year will serve the whole of the Waikato, Hauraki, Raukawa and Maniapoto areas.
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