ADMISSIONS TO HOSPITALS
“No Urgent Case Turned Away”
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept. 17.
No case with any degree of urgency was turned away from public hospitals, said the Minister of Health (Mr J. R. Hanan) in the House of Representatives when discussing the estimates of the Health Department. Mr M. Moohan (Opposition, Petone) complained that persons requiring attention had been unable to get into public hospitals and had to go to private hospitals where there were shorter waiting lists and where, of course, they had to pay. “The responsibility is that of the doctor concerned,” said Mr Hanan. “It is his responsibility to approach the superintendent of the public hospital and acquaint him with the degree of urgency and condition. I can assure members that all urgent cases so reported are, and will be, admitted to public hospitals.” Miss M. B. Howard (Opposition, Sydenham) said that in her own experience the Christchurch Hospital Board had never turned away an urgent case. “The trouble is that many of these doctors have private hospitals,’ she said. “General practitioners know perfectly well that they can get cases in if they are urgent.”
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28385, 18 September 1957, Page 12
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