Lack of trainee midwives
PA Dunedin The lack of women training to be midwives may have serious repercussions for country hospitals, according to ’ a Tapanui doctor and Otago Hospital Board member. Dr P. G. Snow. Dr Snow said that there are only 11 women training to be midwives throughout the whole of New Zealand this year.
“This is a catastrophic situation that does not augur well for country hospitals," he said. “If midwives are not being trained, this must affect country hospitals' chances of getting staff, and in the end they may have to close.”
The chairman of the rural service committee of Otago Federated Farmers. Mrs W. R. Gibson, said that because there was going to be a surplus of general practitioners, many young doctors were becoming gynaecologists and obstetricians. “They are staying in the main hospitals, such as Queen Mary and Kew. so that tiie country women will have to come to the cities to have their babies. “This is ridiculous, when many women live more than 200 miles from these hospitals." she said.
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