Dr Illich challenged
The reference bv a radical social critic. Dr Ivan Illich. tc- New Zealand hospitals as “high-rise cathedrals for the dying” was challenged in Christchurch yesterday by’ the deputy medical superin-tendent-in-chief for the North Canterbun Hospital Board (Dr Ross Fairgray i , Dr flb’ch, a Mexican scholar and author of con-' 'roversial books, spoke to a Christchurch audience on Fridav evenin c . Dr Fairgray said the facts
did not bear out Dr Illich’s! assertions that many thousands of New Zealanders; (Were dying in hospitals. In the four main hospitals; in Christchurch, this year's | total of patients had reached' 34.534. Of these 1235. or 3.58 per cent, had died in' .hospital. Many new services were: 'being set up by’ the board to 5 ! assist relatives on a 24-hour basis where terminally ill j people wished to remain at home, Dr Fairgray said, |
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