Nurses angry at Govt
1 s The Government’s refusal to appoint a nurse to the f newly constituted Board of i Health had angered the ) Nurses’ Association, said its 5 president, Mrs Jocelyn i Keith. ' Association members considered that the reply of the t Minister of Health, Mr Malcolm in refusing to appoint j a nurse was a rebuff to their profession. { Four doctors and two hos- ; pital board members were ' among the appointments to the advisory board. “Yet the I Minister is not prepared to I acknowledge the input which the nursing profession, can provide,” said Mrs ’ Keith. Mr Malcolm had told the association that he could not I appoint a nurse because r membership of the board t had already been gazettted.
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