MEDICAL ORDERLIES.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 January 1919, Page 5

MEDICAL ORDERLIES.

AND THEIR DISCHARGE. WELLINGTON, this day. Owing to the necessity of having a fully qualified staff of medical orderlies on duty in the Dominion to deal with tKe thousands of sick and wounded who are being returned to New Zealand, this year, the Medical Department of the Now Zealand forces find it impossible to grant discharges to men at present employed in the military hospitals. The former employers of these men arc 'earnestly requested, both on the score of their duty to their country and to the men who have fought and also us a duty to those men who are still able to render very valuable service to the sick and wounded, to preserve places for these men whom the military cannot discharge at present. Every effort will be made to discharge the medical orderlies as soon as possible, and a number of urgent cases connected with essential occupations oc-' cupations have already ’ received consideration, but it must be evident to all that ‘'the first consideration is the care and attention of the returning invalids," .and that this duty cannot be adequately done except by men who have been specially trained for the work.