CHILD PATIENTS.
CROSS-INFECTION DANGER. RIGHTS OF RELATIVES. (By Telegrapfa.—Own Correspondent.) NAPIER, Saturday.
As an outcome of the most sensational ! section of the Royal Commission's Napier Hospital inquiry—the contraction of venereal disease by a number of child patients—several recommendations have already been adopted and changes introduced. "The medical superintendent," states the board in a special statement which it has issued, "haa taken the responsibility of notifying relatives when he is informed regarding any drastic change of treatment contemplated by an honorary medical officer | in charge of a case. The board has made provision for extra individual equipment which may be necessary for each patient in the way of separate thermometers and other items. i
'"The board has in view the provision of further facilities for hand washing in wards and has appointed a full-timo tutor sister to assist in the education of trainees."
Other points of the board's statement refer to administrative reforms which had been introduced, including full and accurate recording of all treatments, provision for attention to urgent cases at the out-patients' department and periodical inspections by the Nurses and Midwives' Eegistration, ftoard. 1
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 235, 4 October 1937, Page 17
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