Shannin and Sarah with the Immunisation Week display in the waiting room

May 2-8th is Immunisation week and our resident artist, Sara Morris, with the help of Shannin Howe, has put up a display in the waiting room to highlight this. Immunisation Week is about raising awareness about the importance of immunisation to protect against serious illnesses. The theme of the 2016 Immunisation Week is Protecting baby begins at pregnancy. It has been great over the 27 years that we have been working with Kawerau families to see the dramatic drop in the incidence of illnesses like rubella and measles that were once regular epidemics to deal with and young doctors now have often never seen a clinical case of these illnesses. Since the introduction of haemophilus vaccine the cases of meningitis and ear infections have also dramatically dropped and the introduction of HPV vaccine will contribute to reduce future cases of cervical cancer..

See the Health Promotion Agency website for more information