Country Hospitals
Sir, —Recent news reports of the methods the Otago Hospital Board may use to meet the budget forced on them by the Government must cause concern to the rural populations. It appears the present economic crisis is to be the excuse by which hospital boards will be able to dispose of their uneconomic units and attribute this to Government pleas for economy. If the wholesale closure of country hospitals is forced, the country people who are continually called upon to assist New Zealand in its difficulties will be the first to suffer. The Government apparently persists in ignoring warnings on the future of country medical practice, and there is no doubt that if it now forces the closing of small country hospitals country medical practice as it is known today will cease to exist.—Yours, etc., BRIAN HEYWARD. Cheviot, April 12, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31344, 14 April 1967, Page 12
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