Health
Māori must decide for themselves on Covid-19 vaccine — Waititi – Stuff.co.nz
Māori MPs are reluctant to tell Māori they should get the Covid-19 injection, saying it’s about mana motuhake and whānau have the right to choose.
The government has put $39 million towards a targeted Mori Covid-19 vaccination strategy, which includes $24.5m for the development of community support services to be run by Mori health providers.
The vaccine framework would also directly give 40,000 courses of the vaccine to Mori and Pacific health providers across the country to immunise older people, and the family members they live with.
This whnau-centred approach means that an entire whnau can be vaccinated all together and will help to…
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