Category Archives: New Zealand

Cutbacks for Ambulance Service

The elite "Order of St Johns" received $223 million in the 2010-2011 financial year, 80 per cent of it coming from the Ministry of Health and ACC. Their annual operating loss has risen from $8 million five years ago, with an increasing number of elderly people needing transport producing a 4.5 per cent rise in…
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Challenges for Disabled in Christchurch

Christchurch is always in the news but a bigger problem now is the Growing isolation, a lack of suitable accommodation and difficulty for disabled citizens to just get around. Those with physical disabilities face an array of challenges in a post-earthquake Christchurch. The February 2011 quake took away much of the independence they were used…
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The Flu Has Arrived

At Supercare4u.com we carry a large component of clients for medical appointments. So we are urging all people reading this to go and get a Flu Vaccination injection after reading of a Wellington woman that died just five days after contracting the flu It is important to remember that the flu is a vaccine preventable…
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Influenza warning on H3N2

I don't know if anyone reading this has had the flu in New ZealNd this winter but I came down with a dose and it sure made me sick . Thankfully modern medicine and Amoxillin solved the problem, but the concern in New Zealand this winter is the increasing numbers of Kiwis are being affected…
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