The Waitemata District Health Board has introduced a four-year movement encouraging bowel screening tests. The entire movement involves an expenditure of $24 million. The movement that has been introduced in Auckland mainly concentrates on encouraging men to take up the screening test for bowel cancer.

According to the strategy of the coordinators of the movement, the association will provide the screening test kit to 500 people belonging to the age group of 50 to 70 years. The people will be chosen arbitrarily from the 2 GP clinics.

According to the Health Minister of New Zealand, the new drive aims to observe the way the people of New Zealand approach the bowel screening test drive. The approach will provide with an estimation of the number of kits further required to be distributed in accordance with the demand.

The disease of bowel cancer in the second most deadly disease in New Zealand, previous year at least 3,000 people were detected with the disease. Also, the doctors of the nation consider early detection for this form of cancer as very important and beneficial. An early diagnosis can result in early implication of treatment, thereby saving life of the patients.

On the basis of the outcome of the drive, the Government of New Zealand will decide whether or not the screening test should be implied across the nation. The entire project will involve an expenditure of $60 million.