Closing of Essex Hospital
Sir, — Essex Maternity Hospital will close in June so that women must soon choose between having babies af Burwood, Lincoln, Christchurch Women’s or at home. In most hospitals women can choose to have their own doctor deliver; their babies, but at Christchurch Women’s they are to be “rationed.” One thousand women a year will be “allowed” to have their own doctor; the rest will have to go through , fhe clinic. Some may enjoy this procedure. Others find the lack of privacy, the long waits, the shunting from one doctor to another and ?not knowing who will be delivering them, frightening, degrading and humiliating. Do the Hospital Board, its advisors, and the medical profession, who' are haggling over our bodies, not realise ■ that it is our hospital and that as such we should have some choice and say in the matter? One might ask, whose best interests is this hospital serving? — Yours, etc., ELODY RATHGEN, HELEN CHAMBERS, LIVIA ZULAUFWITTMAN, CHIGUSA STEVEN. March 21, 1980.
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Press, 25 March 1980, Page 16
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