MATERNITY TRAINING
STUDENTS IN ST. HELENS HOSPITALS MINISTER SATISFIED Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Discussing the admission of medical students to St. Helens Hospitals in the House yesterday the Minister of Health, the lion. A. J. Stallwortby, said ho -was satisfied that he was doing right to admit them. While the Act did not specify that medical students should be admitted it also did not specify that they should be prohibited from gaining experience. Mr. P. Fraser ( Labour—Wellington Central): it. was never contemplated that they would be admitted. The Act should be amended before that ia done.
Continuing, tho Minister said that New- Zealand was still training maternity nurses aud midwives at a greater rate than their services could be used. Iu the Dominion 200 were being trained annually.
He added that out of 2,400 cases treated in St. Helens Hospitals last, year medical students bad attended only 368. The majority had been attended by maternity nurses aud midwives. There was no question of a decline in efficiency.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 16
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