Nelson Weekly Locally Owned and Operated
tuesday 19 July 2016
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Parents decline to immunise More than 200 infants in the Top of the South are not fully immunised, causing the region to miss a national health target and part of the “incentive funding” attached to it. The incentive funding is calculated each quarter and distributed to the region’s general practices through the Nelson Bays Primary Health Organisation. Up to $79,000 was available between July 2015 and June 2016 for Nelson Bays PHO if each of the five targets were met. The incentive funding is used by the Nelson Bays PHO to provide support and resources to general practices to further enable their immunisation activity. One of these targets is to immunise 95 per cent of children between eight and 24 months old. According to the most recent immunisation cover-
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age report by the Ministry of Health, during a threemonth period ending on March 31, the Nelson and Marlborough only had 87.6 per cent of its infants fully immunised, the fifth lowest in the country. It showed that 222 children aged between 6 and 24 months did not receive full immunisation. Full immunisation includes nine injections and three oral vaccines that fight 12 diseases including whooping cough, polio, measles, mumps and rubella. Nelson Bays PHO general manager of health services, Ward Steet, says it will be hard for Nelson to reach the 95 per cent target as there are a lot of “decliners” in region, those who make an
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Fajbian Sanerivi, centre, has been reunited with his GoPro after it was lost at St Joseph’s School. With him is Crusoe Jones, 14, left, and Hamish Colvin, 16. Photo: Andrew Board.
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When Nelson man Neil Benson downloaded footage from a GoPro camera that his daughter found, he was hoping to find some evidence of who owned it – what he found blew him away. “They were incredible,” he says. “I see these young men doing these flips around the place, it was a bit
find its owner. Its owner, Fajbian Sanerivi, was one of four teens who were filmed flipping, spinning, jumping and cartwheeling their way around the lawn and walls at St Joseph’s. Neil edited the footage and uploaded it to his Facebook page, asking if anyone knew the boys in the film.
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more exciting than what I expected.” Neil’s nine-year-old daughter Maria found the GoPro in a garden at St Joseph’s School after attending church last Sunday. She took the camera straight to her dad. Later that night Neil, an IT expert by trade, downloaded the footage from the camera onto his laptop in the hope that there would be some people on the camera so he could
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