Medical centre

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32568, 30 March 1971, Page 1

Medical centre

Tenders for a nine-floor medical centre to be built at Christchurch ’ Hospital would be called in about a month, the chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board (Dr L. C. L. Averill) said yesterday. The picture above is an artist’s impression of what the medical centre will look like. Only the nine-floor portion will be | built at this stage. I Parts of the existing hospital on Riccarton Avenue and Oxford Terrace will have to be demolished to make way for the lower building shown on two sides of the centre. Dr Averill said that eventually all that would remain of the present hospital would be the nurses’ new home and the chapel. In perhaps 20 years Christchurch would have a whole new hospital on the old site. ’ The clinical school will be

i part of the University of I Otago’s faculty of mediI cine and the centre, ! which will cost about i s3m, will be paid for by j the university. i A council will be set up to ’ run the school, consist- ) ing of six members I appointed by the North » Canterbury Hospital > Board and six appointed 7 by the University of 51 Otago.