Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 25, 2017 17:25:04 GMT 12
CORONER'S ACT MISSING CULTURAL DIMENSION
A Maori health worker says changes are urgently needed to allow whanau timely access to tupapaku.
Parliament’s Maori affairs committee is looking at the issue, less than a year after the Coroner’s Act was changed.
Naida Glavish says while there were some positive changes such as the new mortuary service, in other areas additional bureaucratic hurdles were thrown up.
She says the cultural dimension is still overlooked...
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MTYxNzU=/Coroner%27s%20Act%20missing%20cultural%20dimension
A Maori health worker says changes are urgently needed to allow whanau timely access to tupapaku.
Parliament’s Maori affairs committee is looking at the issue, less than a year after the Coroner’s Act was changed.
Naida Glavish says while there were some positive changes such as the new mortuary service, in other areas additional bureaucratic hurdles were thrown up.
She says the cultural dimension is still overlooked...
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MTYxNzU=/Coroner%27s%20Act%20missing%20cultural%20dimension