Hospital planning
Sir,—The article on intensive care at Christchurch Hospital (“The Press” February 6) mentions the need for close and early co-operation by the pathology department in the treatment of life-threatening conditions, the majority of which arise in accident or emergency patients. Speed is often vital in drug identification and blood transfusion, and in repeated blood counts and biochemistry tests: delays are potentially lethal. Speedy cooperation is easy in the same building or on the same site, but under pressure from the Department of Health the Hospital Board plans to rebuild the pathology laboratories half a block away. Such planning cannot be considered to be in the best interests of patients in life-threatening states. The Department of Health needs to reconsider its restrictive building policy. — Yours, etc., D. T. STEWART (former Director of Pathology, Christchurch Hospital). February 11, 1982.
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