Fishing injured pay
fWeZ/Kipton reporter) WELLINGTON Injured or sick fishermen i from foreign boats fishing ! off the coast do not receive j free hospital treatment in ( New Zealand, according to i the Health Department. Clear restrictions as to who may be admitted to hosipital under the social security system have been laid down, and fishermen working off the coast do not qualifx. ■ The department said that, any casualties from foreign ifishing boats would be admitited to hospital at the expense of the shipping comIpany or fishing firm coni'cerried. The department had ■no statistics on how mane were received treatment b> cause individual hospital [boards would claim directlv. I rather than through the department j The regulations state that (anyone visiting New Zealand for two years is entitled to al! the benefits under the 'scheme, and New Zealand and Britain have reciprocal |agreements for the hospital Icare of their citizens. | Nationals from the Cook : Islands, Niue, and the Tokojlau Islands are automatically entitled to free treatment, and New Zealand has had a Iseries of short-term agreements with the governments of some of the other South Pacific islands.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34130, 17 April 1976, Page 22
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