Child Patients in Hospital
Reporting to yesterday’s neel.ing of the Cook Hospital Board, the finance committee recommended that the inpatients’ fees for .children be fixed on the same scale as ‘or adults. This does not affect the pockets of parents in Gisborne who send their children to the Cook Hospital, for treatment in hospital is cost-free to residents in this district. The recommendation was designed to meet cases in which children from other districts arc admitted to the Cook Hospital, and become subject to charges over arid above the social security foes. The proposal gives the Cook Hospital Board a bargaining weapon in dealing with other boards, for -it can make concessions on a mutual basis, whereas when the established rate for children at Cook was lower than in other hospitals, mutual concessions were not always easy to obtain,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 7
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139Child Patients in Hospital Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20107, 29 November 1939, Page 7
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