Patients to move soon
’ - Patients will be moved out of the old orthopaedic wards at Christchurch Hospital on February 28. The two wards are housed in the 65-year-old Chalmers Building, which has been condemned and will be demolished this year to make way for the third stage in the rebuilding of Christchurch Hospital. Conditions in the old orthopaedic wards have been the subject of controversy for the last two years. The North , Canterbury Hospital Board lias renovated three of its other old wards to provide 81 orthopaedic beds. ! These are in Ward Eight,! i Ward Nine, and part .of [Ward 10. The orthopaedic wards will be housed there until a new orthopaedic department is completed, which will cost an estimated $5O million over the next lOj to 15 years.
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Press, 12 February 1981, Page 4
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