Wendy Wright: Land Search & Rescue chief executive on the growing calls to give first responding volunteers mental health coverage
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive · Newstalk ZB
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Should first responding volunteers be covered for post-traumatic stress caused by the job?
ACC currently covers the responders for broad physical injury cover - but not for mental health harm.
A petition to change the legislation with more than 36,000 signatures was unsuccessful last year.
Land Search & Rescue chief executive Wendy Wright says most of their workforce are actually volunteers.
"We can provide short-term support for them, but it's for those that have long-term PTSD - and it's that longer-term support that we are unable to provide."
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