Women's Health Collective manager Jean Hera is heartened by community support to keep the women's centre's doors open. Palmerston North's Women's Health Collective is buoyed by an uprising of city council and community support challenging a MidCentral District Health Board decision to cut its funding. The trusted women's health centre Te Hā o Hine-ahu-one faces the loss of nearly $90,000 for a contract to provide sexual health services – the most well-used aspect being pregnancy tests. READ MORE:* Anger and dismay about threat to women's health service* Women's Health Collective celebrates suffrage with Māori name* Loss of sex clinics 'would be a blow to women'Mayor Grant Smith has pledged to speak to board members when the health board meets on February 26. SUPPLIED Palmerston North City Council community services portfolio holder Lorna Johnson is speaking up for the women's health collective.

Source: Stuff February 13, 2019 02:26 UTC