AN ANOMALY?
CONVALESCENT PATIENTS
The attention of the Government is to be drawn to what the Wellington Hospital Board considers is an anomaly in the social security legislation. .
Reporting at the meeting of the board last evening, the chairman (Mr J. Glover) said that when patients were convalescent they were supposed to go home, but if they had no home to go to for nursing treatment, the board was responsible for their convalescence. So that they should not occupy beds in the hospital .wanted for other patients, they were sent to the board's two convalescent homes. They were charged fees; arid did not come under the social security scheme
It was decided to write to the Minister of Health (the Hon. P. Fraser) on the matter.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 4
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126AN ANOMALY? Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 4
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