PAYMENT PROBLEM
Post-mortem Examinations
The difficulty of patients in private hospitals being asked to pay the cost of post-mortem examinations on babies was raised at a four-day conference of specialists in obstetrics, gynaecology and pediatrics being held at the Christchurch Women’s Hospital.
' In an address on the inci- ] dence of infant deaths, the \ head of the post-graduate : school of obstetrics and gynaecology at the National Women’s Hospital (Professor D. G. Bonham) said postmortem examinations were still only done in about one third of still-births. The exception to this was in Auckland where the figure was 66 per cent and 90 per cent at the National Women’s Hospital. “This is an unsatisfactory situation which must be re- | medied as soon as possible,” he said. | Professor Bonham said that !in a large hospital the examination could be done by j staff available, but there were problems in other areas. One doctor said he could not get this type of post-mortem: examination done on request, because of pressure of work’ on staff involved.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31775, 4 September 1968, Page 9
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170PAYMENT PROBLEM Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31775, 4 September 1968, Page 9
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