PARAPLEGIC UNIT AT BURWOOD
Hospital BoarcTs Advocacy
The establishment at the Burwood Hospital of a paraplegic unit to assist all New Zealand cases was urged in a discussion at yesterday's meeting of the North Canterbury Hospital Board. Points made were that Burwood hospital had features not held by other hospitals of ground-floor accommodation, level space nearby and closeness to an airport.
The board decided to send to the Health Department a report by Mr W. L. F. Utley on his recent visit to paraplegic centres in England and the United States.
All that was needed at Burwood was a ward, a gymnasium and physiotherapy equipment, said the chairman (Dr. L. C. L. Averill). Paraplegic cases required a great deal of urological work and that could be undertaken at Burwood. The board’s views had been placed before the Health Department on two occasions, said the secretary (Mr J. G. Laurenson), and the question of the centre was to be discussed on a national plane. A large centre was not needed, said Mr L. Christie. The centre should have accommodation for 30 cases from all over the Dominion.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28930, 25 June 1959, Page 10
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