Bone-marrow work reviewed
A new look is being taken at the future of bone-mar-row transplants done at Christchurch Hospital. Canterbury Hospital Board members asked at a committee meeting yesterday for a report on the service’s future.
Their request came after an “in committee” discussion.
The medical superintendent of Christchurch Hospital, Dr David Andrews, said some problems were always associated with bone-marrow transplants. “There are repeated worries that we do have sometimes with these rather demanding cases,” he said. More than 10 transplants
had been done at the hospital in the last two years. Dr Andrews said there was no particular threat to the service but with Government funding cuts, the board was bound to look at the cost and implications for the hospital of such operations. The board missed on a request for funds to start a specialised transplant unit when the Government announced the high-technology package for hospitals last year. It has since been questioning the Minister of Health’s statement that such a unit was unwarranted in the light of overseas advances for leukaemia treatment.
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