Bone-marrow unit
The North Canterbury! Hospital Board will maintain i pressure on the Government j for extra funds * to set up a’ national - bone-marrow trans-! plant unit in Christchurch. The board agreed yesterday that the medical and nursing team which had done five successful bonemarrow transplants since April last ' year at ! Christchurch Hospital could not extend its work to cope with people from outside the board’s own district until extra finance was available. Mr T. M. McGuigan said i* was an indictment of the
! country’s health service for ithe Health Department to (suggest that the Social Welfare Department might" pay. jfor patients to go . overseas for bone-marrow transplants.
The Social Welfare Department would be better employed financially helping people to go to Christchurch Hospital for bone-marrow 'transplants. Mrs ,Judy Waters said.
Mr T. C. Grigg, the chair- ‘ man of the board, said that the aim must be for a- national unit and he considered that Christchurch was being given encouraging support for this.
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