Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Since Sept 27, 1879 Retail $2 Home delivered from $1.25 THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF MID CANTERBURY Ashburton at DOWNLOAD Selwyn at NOW! THEAshburton your fingertips your fingertips App FREE SCRIPTS PUT THE Court news P4-5 PRESSURE New sport a ON BY SUSAN SANDYS Countdown has 30 in-store pharma- These providers played a vital role in winner [email protected] cies across New Zealand. Ashburton’s healthcare community. Free prescriptions introduced by Ashburton pharmacists are frustrat- “Ultimately it is likely to result in the P24 Countdown will put pressure on local ed by the move in which an Australi- closure of a number of locally-owned pharmacies in a competitive market to an-owned multi-national can support businesses and a reduction in health- stay in operation. the loss-leader initiative due to its back- care services for the wider community,” From Thursday last week, the super- ing. he said. market chain’s six Canterbury in-store Subsidised medications are provided Despite the concern, many custom- pharmacies were offering free pre- on prescription by pharmacies, which ers are vowing to continue to support scriptions, in a move expected to save charge $5. This fee is a tax which the the model of community pharmacies customers in the region more than pharmacy must forward on to Govern- which has served Ashburton well for $350,000 a year. ment and if it does not recover the fee years, where individual pharmacists Countdown’s head pharmacist Jer- from its customers, it has to pay this and their staff get to know them and emy Armes said a key reason behind to the Government anyway, detracting help with all sorts of advice and health- establishing Countdown Pharmacy in from its bottom line. care. 2012 had been to make healthcare more Wises Community Pharmacy manag- Many commenting on the Guardian affordable and accessible. er Andy McKee said Countdown’s move Facebook page this week talked of “con- “And providing free prescriptions is was anti-competitive and undermined sistent friendly service”, “cool, compas- another way we can continue to help the viability of community pharmacy sionate staff” and high expertise at their make that happen,” Armes said. providers. local pharmacy store. 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Advance Ashburton executive of- ficer Sandi Wood said the charitable foundation was delighted to receive the funds, which would be used to pay grants at regular intervals and would be a fitting reminder of Wastebusters and what it had achieved over its 25- year history. The trust started in Ashburton in 1994 with the aim of reducing waste Big day out planned for Scouts’ scarfs going to landfill; it was a vision pro- moted through schools and the wider community by Anita Coghill and Sher- Scouts young and old are being encouraged to wear their scarfs out in public on August 1 in celebration of Scout Scarf yl Stivens. Day. The idea of the day is that all active and former scouts are requested to wear their scarfs out in public to make the But when the Ashburton District spirit of scouting visible. The date of the event commemorates the first Scout Camp on Brownsea Island in 1907. Council opted for new recycling con- PHOTO ASHBURTON GUARDIAN tractors in 2010, Wastebusters had to change direction though it continued to provide recycling and education services. When overseas markets for recycled products collapsed in 2018, Wastebusters had no alternative but to Second dengue fever case stop operating, as it did not have the financial resources to do otherwise. The trustees resolved to wind the BY SUSAN SANDYS nausea and vomiting, and a disease over the previous four gue bite mainly during the day, business up and to donate any re- [email protected] skin rash. years back to 2014. Canter- mostly at dawn and dusk.” maining funds to charity; it was sold as Mid Canterbury has had its Dengue outbreaks are com- bury Medical Officer of Health Currently Bangladesh is a going concern to McLaren Contract- second case of dengue fever mon in tropical and subtrop- Dr Ramon Pink said Aedes experiencing the country’s ing Partnership. notified for this year. ical Pacific Islands, where Ae- mosquitoes able to spread worst-ever dengue fever out- Three trustees have received hon- Dengue is a mosqui- des mosquitoes live. dengue fever are not normally break, and eight people have orary life memberships over the past to-borne virus and can make One case was notified in found in New Zealand. died. 25 years – Elizabeth Ashford, Bruce people very sick and can even Ashburton District for the “The best way to avoid den- The World Health Organisa- MacPhail and Viv Barrett. Current kill. Symptoms can last from week ending July 26, following gue is to avoid being bitten tion says the global incidence trustees include long-serving Peter two to seven days and may the first case notified for the by mosquitoes, when visiting of dengue has grown dramat- Smith (19 years) and Roger Hart (17 include a sudden fever, an in- year in May. nations where the Aedes mos- ically in recent decades, and years) as well as Graeme Church (sev- tense headache, muscle and The two cases follow there quito thrives,” Dr Pink said. half the world’s population is en years), Carol Johns, Marion Bartlett joint pain, feeling very tired, being zero notifications for the “Mosquitoes that carry den- now at risk. and Ashish Shah. Spend over $499 in *T&C’S APPLY. WHILE STOCKS LAST. July and go in the draw to *T&C’S APPLY. WHILE STOCKS LAST. TH BE IN TO WIN! WINSpend Aover $2500 $499 in 50 BIRTHDAY SELL-ABRATION July and go in the draw to *T&C’S APPLY. WHILE STOCKS LAST. TRAVEL VOUCHER TH FINAL DAY! 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