Urgent need for nurse'
' An• ‘-'overwhelming” workload 'en the three cancer nursed ii» Christchiffch made jthe need for a/fourth nurse a mattef of great-urgency, said the excytive officer for the Cancer Society in Christchurch (Mt G,. F- Lowry) yesterday. - . - Mr ‘ Lowry said the nurses who work from the Nurse Maude ? Association with patients in their own homes .were . undertaking. - work which, had proved invaluable to patients and their'families. “it? jwould - cost about 512,006 to employ a further
experienced and qualified nurse, but the system has already reached its peak in one half the period we had estimated. It has well proved itself to be g method to take a lot of pressure off the hospitals and it is high time that serious thought was given by the Health. Department to employing a further nurse,” he said. .. Mr Lowry, was, however, sceptical that enough finance would be available to . extend the service, considering the shortage 'of health funds arid the “sinking lid" policy on' staffing,/??
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