Third neurosurgeon
South Islanders will get a third neurosurgeon next month. The Canterbury Hospital Board hopes that he will arrive from “the Americas” by mid-August. Dr Ross Fairgray, the board’s medical superin-tendent-in-chief, was reluctant yesterday to give the neurosurgeon’s nationality or name in caseof last-minute hitches.
“However, as far as we know all the formalities have been completed,” he said. His appointment, will relieve the heavy workload on the board’s existing neurosurgeon, Mr Martin MacFarlane, and provide a “better regional service.” Another neurosurgeon is based in Dunedin. Dr Fairgray said that there was a world shortage
of neurosurgeons, and the board counted itself lucky in its latest recruit. The successful applicant for the Christchurch Hospital job was married to an English woman, and had worked in both Britain and the Americas. Training young doctors in the speciality was also now a long-term hope with two neurosurgeons, Dr Fairgray said.
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