Medical School Case Urged

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30130, 14 May 1963, Page 14

Medical School Case Urged

(IVeui Zeauna Press Association)

HAMILTON, May 13

The University Grants Committee will be informed by the Waikato Hospital Board that it is “completely out of touch” with reality concerning the necessity for a second medical school.

The board was told in a letter from Dr. F. J. Llewellyn, chairman of the grants committee, that on the evidence it had received the committee di., not consider the establishment of a second medical school in New Zealand to be a matter of urgency. It recognised that a second school would be eventually needed, and agreed with the decision made in 1959 that the school should be established in Auckland.

The hospital board decided, on the motion of its deputy-chairman (Mr A. E. Bryant) that the grants committee be informed that the “board receives with dismay the advice from the committee.

‘‘lt expresses its opinion, founded on facts with which it has to deal, that the grants committee is hopelessly out of touch with reality regarding the neces-

sity for a second medical school. “It considers that the matter should be regarded as urgent and, further, that publicity should be given to the address delivered at the hospital boards’ conference by the superintendent-in-chief of the Waikato Hospital, Dr. J. A. Meade. “The practical suggestion that he made there regarding an alleviation of the situation should be implemented as soon as possible.”

said the motion. The chairman of the board <Mr E. G. Guy) said: “As far as I can follow the grants committee bases its decision on a population basis. But it is not a question of how many doctors there are: it is where they are and what they are doing.

“It is not much use having three doctor® in Kaitaia when a man has a broken leg in Reporoa.' ’