Doctors’ conference
New Zealand doctors hope for a major policy speech from the Minister of Health (Mr Gain when ■ $P ens their conference in Christchurch on April . 26. The chairman of the conference committee of the New Zealand Medical i Association (Dr W. J. . Pryor) said yesterday that ( there had been a lot of i speculation about New Zealand’s health services and the cost of running them. ° “We hope that the Minister will be able to tell us in which direction he sees
the health services going,” Dr Pryor said. About 170 doctors will attend the conference, the theme of which will be alcohol and alcohol abuse. A seminar will be held on the topic to which other paramedical professions have been invited. Among the remits to be discussed by the association’s council is one from the Canterbury division seeking legal recognition of alcohol as a mind-alter-ing drug. The division wants alcohol to be added to the schedule of the Misuse of Drugs Act.
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