HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 75, 15 April 1937, Page 6

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT

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Wairoa Move to _ Secure Specialist Advice MERGER OF INTERESTS

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■WAIROA, This Day. A far-reaching suggestion to secure specialist assistance for Wairqa Hospital patients was mado to a meeting of of the Waipawa Hospital Board yesterday' by Mr. H. L. Harker. The matter arose during a round-table discussion on the best means of securing additioual medical help in the district to make up for the loss of Dr. Eoss's services. Mr. Harker pointed out that at' present people who needed specialist treatment for such as eye, ear, and throat troubles, as well as tubereulosis, and some other affpetions, had to travel long distances at heavy exxpense and pay heavy fees, for a small hospital like that at Wairoa could not provide such specialists. He thought there should be a conference held of all the hospital boards from Wairoa to Dannevirke, and perbaps including Gisborne, to see if they could not all be merged into a proviucial hospital district, so that the specialists that the bigger boards could employ should be available to all — in other words, to put all the money into one purse to get better faeilities for special treatment. There would be one mHn board with district xepresentatives, and the local hospitals would be run as now. The suggestion met with a mixed reception on oue or two points, but generally favourable on the main issues, aud at the close of an all-round discussion Mr. Harker acceded to a request for more time for consideration, and he gave uotice to move a resolution 011 the subject at next meeting.