HEALTH VOTE
‘Too Much For Buildings’ (N.Z. Press Association) GISBORNE, June 23. Too much of the health (vote was spent on building and not enough on staffing and equipment, the head of the post-graduate school of obstetrics and gynaecology in Auckland (Professor D. G. Bonham) said in Gisborne last night.
New Zealand should develop hospitals in main centres with full staff and complete equipment to serve a whole region.
“I would like to see such organisations as the Army and the Air Force being brought into this and flying patients by helicopters, in urgent cases, to the hospital with the complete facilities,” he said.
Although some of the smaller centres would demand fully equipped hospitals, it was more practical to have the main centres serving a whole region. “The moment you build a (small hospital you have a staffing problem," he said.
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Press, Issue 32333, 26 June 1970, Page 18
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