‘Stress for patients’
Patients who went from Christhcurch to other New Zealand cities for heart surgery suffered further stress because relatives travelling with them had to pay for their own transport and accommodation. the Christchurch Cardiac Companions Association has been told.
In his annual report, the chairman (Mr J. P. Gavigaiy said every heart-sur-
gery patient who returned to full employment, usually within two months of the operation, paid the cost many times over with the saving of benefit payments, and with tax paid on earnings. “It is time someone in local or central Government took up the challenge and made changes to the system,” he said
All costs to the patients are paid by hospital boards.
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