NO X-RAY PLANT AT RANGIORA
Department Refuses Permission
After further representations that a small X-ray plant be provided at Rangiora Hospital, the Health Department has adhered to its view that the North Canterbury Hospital Board should not undertake the responsibility of providing X-ray facilities in hospitals of Rangiora’s size and type. The director of radiology, the board wasadvised yesterday by its institutions committee, had been asked to report on any way in which the medico-legal problems involved in the use of such a plant could be overcome. The committee has made the suggestion that the director should have a round-table talk with the local doctors before the board made a further approach to the department. '"The department is out of touch with the needs of Rangiora and the surrounding districts,” said Mr E. P. Shier. “I know that after a football match players have had to traipse right down to Christchurch for an X-ray and I know that in other cases valuable time has been lost,” said Miss M. McLean. “We should press on with our claims for an X-ray plant for Rangiora.” A Rangiora doctor had informed him that 18 cases a week had to be sent to Christchurch for X-ray examination, said Mr H. A. Bennett.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28984, 27 August 1959, Page 7
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