Fewer transplants
Nursing-staff shortages I havf led to a reduction in. the ’number of bone-marrow' transplant operations thatl can foe done in Christchurch,. Members of the North! Canterbury Hospital ■ Board’s health services committee I said' yesterday- that if| patents from other hospital board areas were to be considered for bone-marrow transplants in Christchurch ; bth®r boards might be asked to Help pay for extra nurs-j ing Staff. i Christchurch Hospital iff
|one of two seeking a, national bone-marrow trans-' , (plant unit. The other is. (Auckland Hospital. I The Government has! .deferred for a year a deci-| i sion on whether a national I /unit will be established. The, ; I committee members said! ’(that this delay had further! confused the situation. The board’s medical super-' Hintendent-in-chief (Dr R. A., 11 Fairgray) said the shortage; Lof nursing staff would limit; • j the number of bone-marrow! : transplants to two or three r'a year in Christchurch out
■of an estimated 15 transiplants that might need to be done in any one year i throughout New Zealand. i But if other hospital (boards could help to pay for 'temporary additional nursing : [staff it would be possible to [continue transplants on (patients from outside the (North Canterbury Board’s •area. ~ The board’s chairman (Mr ;T. C. Grigg) said that docJtors working on bone-mar-Hrow transplants were not >’ happy with the Governi’ment’s move.
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