S.C.F. gift will buy monitor
Dr Rodney Ford (centre), a community pediatrician, explains a ph electrode monitor to Mrs Ngaire Irvine (right), of the Save the Children Fund,, and Mr Tom Grigg, the chairman of the Canterbury Hospital Board. In the background are members of the Save the Children Fund (from left): Mrs Eva Gilmore, Mr Philip Stewart, Miss Brenda Brankin, and Mrs Betty Pearson. Mrs Irvine presented Mr Grigg with a cheque for $5500 from the North Canterbury branch of the Save the Children Fund. The money will be used by the pediatrics department to buy a ph electrode monitor which measures the acid content of the gullet Acid rising from the stomach into the back of the throat sometimes causes breathing problems in babies and young children and is one of the few known causes of sudden infant death.
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Press, 10 March 1987, Page 4
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