Mobile health on show for WDHB

Dr Nigel Murray

It's new, it's interactive and one day its services might just save your life.

This is your chance to walk through a mobile world of healthcare at Fieldays' Waikato Health Hub - stand E32.

Mobile Health Solutions has teamed up with a range of healthcare services, including many from Waikato District Health Board (DHB), to showcase some of the innovative and lifesaving services they are providing communities.

From the brain, boobs to a giant bowel that's inflatable and you can walk through, Waikato Health Hub's got it all on topics from cancer detection and treatment, rural mental health and wellbeing through to services that support rangatahi/youth.

There'll also be a live 'mock' surgery on Mobile Health's surgical bus.

Waikato DHB chief executive Dr Nigel Murray is excited about showcasing some of the latest healthcare advances at Fieldays.

"The Waikato DHB serves the largest rural population in New Zealand," says Dr Murray.
"We know that people living in rural areas often have difficulty getting to see a doctor, with a shortage of GPs and a long trip to the Emergency Department or their hospital specialist.

"We want to help address this with our proposal for a third medical school for NZ, based in the Waikato to help train more doctors who want to live in rural areas and serve the community. And we want to improve access to healthcare through our SmartHealth online doctor service. Both these initiatives will be on show at the Health Hub.

"Being able to talk to some of the thousands of people who come to Fieldays about healthcare services available to them, in a really fun and interactive way, is invaluable," says Dr Murray.