HOSPITAL MATTERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1917, Page 4

HOSPITAL MATTERS.

DOCTORS STAND FIRM. A meeting of the Taranaki Hospital Board will be held to-day, when the reply of the medical staff, who tendered their resignations at last meeting, will be considered. It is understood the medical officers decline to recede from the position they took up at last meeting, and accordingly propose to relinquish their positions three months from the date of their resignations. The Board is now placed in the position :of ancepting the resignations or resigning themselves. The latter course would meet with practically the unanimous Jip-proval of the public, who, having lieon placed in possession of the facts of the ease, realise the members of the Board are in the wrong, and have, moreover, entirely failed in their duty by the hospital in not before now providing adequate accommodation for the nurses and infectious diseases cases. The result is that many of the nursing stall, unable to put up with the unsatisfactory conditions any further, have left the institution, whilst 110 fewer than eight nurses have contracted diseases—the eighth only yesterday—from absolutely I pravcntiblo causes The Board has shown its incapacity to manage either the hospital or the stall, and th-j only thing left for it to do is to carry out its previous suggestion to relinquish office and leavo the medical and nursing staff intact', and make room for a more capable Board.