Children's Ward At Hospital

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 81, 13 August 1948, Page 5

Children's Ward At Hospital

WILL OPEN WHEN STAFF AVAILABLE The Children’s Ward at the Whakatane Hospital is to be opened as soon as staff sufficient to run the ward becomes available. This ward was constructed several years ago and has never been used as a children’s ward owing to the staffing and nurses accommodation problem. This decision was made by the rmonthly, meeting of the Bay of .Plenty Hospital Board yesterday. Until the recent acquisition by the .Board of a house the Children’s Ward was used as accommodation ■ for nurses, who are now accommodated in the house.

Staff Pay Period After an inquiry had been circulated by the Matron of the Hospital, Miss K. Miller, seeking the •views of the staff on the proposal by the Hospital Board’s Association to change the period of payment to the nurses from a monthly basis to v a fortnightly basis it was found that the majority of the staff were in favour of the fortnightly payment, ; arid-the-Board decided to adopt the -.jie'w-system / Works Committee’s Report

In the works committee report several small items came up including the installation of amenities in the newly erected porter’s bach which is to have two lighting and one heating point installed as soon as possible. The paths from the nurses home and the sewing room to the main building is another matter which is to be attended to. The committee recommended that a raised path two inches high be constructed from the two buildings so as to meet in the middle of the present right of way and then to continue on as one path to the main building. Slight objection was raised to this point by Mr W. Caulfield, who considered that when the new entrance was made the concrete path would have to be ripped up and would consequently be a wasted effort. He proposed that a strip of metal be laid across the road as a decent path would -be the better proposition.