NEW UROLOGY UNIT

Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 15

NEW UROLOGY UNIT

Hospital Ward Reconstruction Ward 11 at the Christchurch Hospital is being extensively reconstructed for use as a urology unit. When the work is finished, there will be a general change-round involving four other wards. The new ward II will contain 10 beds for women and 22 for men. The beds will be arranged in one eight-bed and two single-bed wards for the women and three six-bed, one three-bed, and two one-bed wards for the men. The men’s and women’s sections will be separated by a kitchen and office area. Both men and women will have a day room attached to their section. At one end of the ward will be an area devoted to toilet and treatment facilities including a room for cystoscopy which will relieve the operating theatre of this class of work.

Ward II was formerly a female urino-genital ward, the present rearrangement having been made possible by the transfer of the gynaecological part of the work to the Princess Margaret Hospital The male urology patients are at present occupying part of Ward 6; when the rebuilding of Ward H is completed, they will be replaced in Ward 6 by patients from the general medical side of Ward 8. The patients of Ward I, a general male surgical ward, will then be transferred to Ward 8. and Ward 15 will be evacuated into Ward I. Ward 15 will be converted for use partly as a second physiotherapy gymnasium and partly for the general work of the occupational therapists.