Otahuhu Health Centre and COVID-19

Otahuhu Health Centre was notified early 12 August that one of our enrolled patients had tested positive for COVID19 on 10 August.

The patient had presented themselves to our clinic on 6 August and was advised by one of our General Practitioners to go to a local community testing centre. This is standard practice for clinics that are not designated swabbing centres.

On 10 August they presented again to our clinic where our General Practitioner established the test had not been done and advised them again as a priority to do so at a local testing centre.

Following notification of a positive test this morning (12 August), we have immediately closed the clinic for 48 hours for cleaning and swabbed all staff and sent them home to self-isolate pending confirmation of test results. We are now currently contacting all patients who presented at the clinic between 6 and 10 August to advise them of the situation and, on advice of the Ministry of Health, to get tested at a local community testing centre and to self-isolate until results of the tests known.

About Otahuhu Health Centre

Otahuhu Health Centre is a National Hauora Coalition (NHC) clinic with over 4,000 enrolled patients and provides a wide range of medical services to the Otahuhu population.

About National Hauora Coalition

The NHC kaupapa is mana whānau, whānau ora and is a lead advocate for hauora Māori (Wai 2687) through the Waitangi Tribunal Health Services Kaupapa Inquiry (Wai 2575).

In its day to day activities NHC partners with a wide range of agencies, Iwi and industry groups to commission and deliver a broad range of indigenously designed health and social services to improve health outcomes for Māori, achieve health equity and greater social cohesion for the benefit of Aotearoa.