Doctors Challenge Board To Resign

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31028, 6 April 1966, Page 7

Doctors Challenge Board To Resign

(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, April 4. The Kew Hospital’s visiting medical staff committee today challenged the Southland Hospital Board to show concern for the public by resigning and offering itself for re-election.

The challenge was made at a meeting of the members of the visiting staff who have already submitted their resignations. The resolution said that if board members were reelected, all doctors’ resignations would be withdrawn. The doctors also agreed that, if their resignations became effective, they would be prepared to continue to provide medical services but

“they will be provided without any payment and entirely as a service to the public.” Members of the visiting staff who had not resigned associated themselves with the resolution calling on the board to resign. They would also carry on their medical services without taking payment from the board. The meeting agreed that the visiting medical staff committee would be prepared to meet the board again only at a public meeting. Another condition of any meeting would be that the Mayor of Invercargill (Mr N. L. Watson) act as chairman.