INQUIRY TO BE HELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 273, 17 November 1936, Page 9

INQUIRY TO BE HELD.

HAWKE'S bay hospital. COMPLAINTS BY DOCTOR. (By Telegraph. —Own Correspondent.) HASTINGS, Monday. Complaints regarding the disappearance of X-ray films and the alleged wrongful injection of neo-hydriol into a patient were voiced by Dr. J. Allen Berry at a meeting of the Hawke s Bay Hospital Board. A motion by Dr. Berry that the- chairman, Mr. C. Lassen, the acting-medical superintendent, Dr. A. G. Clark, and Messrs. C. O. Morse and C. Duff should comprise a committee of inquiry to investigate the supervision of the X-ray department, disappearance of X-ray films, and the injection of neohydriol into one of his patients was carried. Dr. Berry referred to cases where X-ray films required for a Supreme Court hearing could not be found, although they should have been kept under lock and key in the X-ray department at the hospital. The Supreme Court judge, he said, would not ie\\ the loss of the films as a matter of 110 importance. He also referred to a patient of his who underwent an X-ray examination for kidney trouble. He alleged that as a result 'of an injection of neo-hydriol wrongfully given the patient had nearly died.° "The board should have ascertained if there had been any negligence on the part of any of the board's officials," he added. "The case should have been investigated up to the hilt, but the board has done nothing. There is an onus on this board to investigate the circumstances, and it has not done so.