Board seeks time for heart patients
Extra time to make alternative arrangements for Christ c li.u r c h heart patients denied entry to the Wellington heart unit will be eought by the North Canterbury Hospital Board.
The chairman of the Wellington Hospital Board, Dr Malcolm Nicholson, has said that because of the demand of its own patients, the board could not offer heart-surgery services to Christchurch patients after the end of February next year.
The chairman of the North Canterbury Hospital Board, Mr T. C. Grigg, assured board members yesterday that the professional freedom of cardiologists in Christchurch would be preserved in discussions on alternative treatment sought for heart patients
unable to go to ' Wellington.
Mr T. M. McGuigan said that if the three-month deadline set by the Wellington Hospital Board was reached without agreement with the Otago Hospital Board on the use of the Dunedin heart unit by Christchurch patients, the North Canterbury board would be in “real
trouble.” “We need to discuss this matter with the-Wel-lington board,” he said. Mr Grigg: We already have. * The board’s chief executive, Mr R. I. Parker, said that the Wellington board already knew it would be difficult for Christchurch to meet the three-month deadline.
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