The Men’s Health Education Rural Van (MHERV), a mobile men’s health clinic, is coming to Lake Haven on 22 March to provide free life-saving health checks for the community.
To celebrate its arrival, the Royal Freemason’s Benevolent Institution is hosting Welcome Morning Tea attended by Emma McBride MP and RFBI CEO Frank Price.
Since MHERV began touring in 2017, the MHERV team has visited more than 100 communities and given close to 10,000 free health checks.
In the Central Coast and Hunter area, MHERV has screened nearly 1,000 people.
Graeme Hooper is a member of the MHERV management team and says that MHERV was established by Rotary to reduce the number of preventable deaths amongst rural and regional men.
“Men will often avoid making time for health checks and are therefore the most at risk of dying from potentially preventable causes.
“Through MHERV we are looking to address this by having a registered nurse and mobile clinic provide health checks to men in their local community, making it easy and free to access,” he said.
More than half of the people MHERV has screened have been identified as requiring some form of medical treatment.
“The data we have gathered from the 10,000 or so health checks MHERV has provided so far shows just how important this program is for our rural and regional communities,” added Hooper.
RFBI CEO, Frank Price, says that supporting initiatives like MHERV is just one of the ways RFBI continues its legacy of helping people in need.
“I am looking forward to welcoming MHERV to Lake Haven and hope to see the local community and businesses join us at the event and get behind this very worthy initiative,” said Price.
Nicola Riches