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Health Minister Believes in Tooth Fairy
Health Minister Believes in Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus & the Easter Bunny
Health Minister Believes in Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus & the Easter Bunny - he must do, as he's claimed today that every DHB has a 'Suicide Prevention Plan' in place (see release: http://beehive.govt.nz/release/suicide-prevention-plans-place-all-dhbs?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+beehive-govt-nz%2Freleases+%28Releases+-+beehive.govt.nz%29
With a RECORD 569 DEATHS FROM SUICIDE in the last
year, you would hope Jonathan Coleman had woken up, and
started to do something about one of the biggest failures of
his Govt - but chances are that its just hot air rolled out
to make himself look good on the eve of World Suicide
Prevention Day.
Maybe as much hot air as he and his
Waikato DHB have expended on investigating the death of
Nicky Stevens in the 6 months since he drowned in Waikato
River - nice words but zero action!
His comments
insult the intelligence of all people, families and support
workers who are working in the suicide prevention area - and
make Nicky's family wonder why over a hundred people are
coming to the Hamilton forum on 22 Sept from around the
country to develop community action plans to combat the
record
problem!
ENDS
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