HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT
‘Extravagance’ Noted (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 7. In future there would be no need for private hospitals to be as elaborate as many public hospitals were becoming, the president of the Auckland division of the Medical Association of New Zealand (Mr A. K. Burcher) said today. Opening the annual conference of the Private Hospitals’ Association, Mr Burcher said that there was evidence of gross extravagance in his own ward at Middlemore Hospital. “Every bed in the ward has a built-in oxygen and suction connection, as well as a wireless set,” he said. “Only onetenth of these are used at any time. Perhaps they are used more in intensive care wards, but surely they are hardly necessary in such numbers in most hospital buildings.”
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31753, 9 August 1968, Page 16
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