No response to Chch surgeon ad.
The Canterbury Hospital Board has had no success with its advertisements for a surgeon to perform abortions in Christchurch. The board had no reply to its first advertisement nor to the second, which was published last month. The chief executive officer, Mr Ron Parker, said yesterday that the next advertisement might have to be aimed at general practitioners as well as specialist surgeons. The surgeon at present employed by the board to perform abortions js due to retire at the end of March.
The planned abortion clinic, at Lyndhurst Home in Bealey Avenue, is expected to be open in about six months.
Mr Parker said he did not think there would be any problem finding nursing staff for the new clinic, as it would be a day clinic only and the hours would be normal. The board has not yet had a response from the Health Department for its application for capital approval for the conversion of Lyndhurst, at present a home for the elderly. The board’s chairman, Mr Tom Grigg, said that the board would also have to apply formally for permission to convert the home. Mr Parker said that the task of relocating the 22 elderly women at Lyndhurst had been investigated. Space was available for them at other rest homes in Christchurch.
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