RNZ
Government plans to lower the age for free bowel cancer screening for all New Zealanders by “redirecting” money previously set aside to lower the age for Māori and Pasifika has been described as “disappointing”.
Health Minister Simeon Brown said the age would progressively drop from 60 to 58 at a cost of $36m over four years, and “save hundreds of lives over the coming decades”.
Lady Tureiti Moxon, a long-standing Māori health advocate and managing director of Te Kōhao Health, said the “the critical health crisis facing Māori” was being treated as “unimportant and unnecessary” by the government.
