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Media release from the Pasifika Medical Association Group
Wednesday 14 April 2021, 03:18 PM
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Mental health and addiction amongst the Pacific community is the focus for an extra $6.6 million of Government funding to increase access to mental health support services.
Minister for Pacific Peoples and Associate Minister of Health (Pacific), Hon. Aupito William Sio, announced the extra services at an event held last week at the Fonua Ola premises in the Auckland suburb of Ōtāhuhu.
The funding is part of the Government’s $455 million programme to increase mental health and addiction services for all New Zealanders. Minister Sio said that he will continue to lobby the Government to dedicate ten percent of that funding – more than $45 million – to a targeted Pacific approach.