Melbourne Launch of Repower Health

More than 60 people meet in the central city FAD Gallery last night (October 27) for the Melbourne launch of Repower Health.

National Director of
Repower Health, Alex Bhatal.

Initiated by Healthy Futures, Repower Health is about encouraging health institutions, from small GP surgeries to large hospitals, to understand and embrace renewable energy, such as solar power to help mitigate the health-damaging advance of climate change.

Repower Health’s vision is for an Australian health sector powered by clean, healthy energy. 

It’s presently mapping existing solar-powered clinics, services and hospitals and so at the Melbourne launch asked those attending to reach out to clinic owners and health service administrators and convince them to get more services running on renewable energy.

Immediate past president of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Dr Margaret Beavis, was the MC for the evening, introducing and array of speakers who left no doubt in minds of those attending about the need for clinics, services and hospitals to embrace, and use, renewable energy.

Among those she introduced was the director of Repower Health, Alex Bhatal, who has published and presented on climate displacement at UN forums and is active in the global climate justice movement.

Healthy Futures is an organisation of health professionals, students and community members taking action to address climate change and related threats to health.

"Climate Conversations" was at the launch.