Maternity'plan
Sir,—The Canterbury Hospital Board’s plan for its maternity hospitals seems outrageously uncaring and antiquated in some aspects. Apparently the public facilities are to be reduced to Christchurch Women’s Hospital. This way, Canterbury women and parents will be denied three basic rights: to a birthing in a public maternity hospital; to attendance by one’s own obstetrician; and to some convenience for family visits. Parents pay taxes, too, yet this plan would direct normal,
troublefree births to a public hospital and thus be twice paid for. In this most personal matter, attendance by the trusted obstetrician one has consulted through pregnancy should be normal. It is elsewhere in New Zealand. Not in Christchurch Women’s though. And why should good convenient homes like Rangiora’s be closed, forcing more travelling on families? What a case of the tail wagging the dog' Did they consider consulting parents? — Yours, etc., B. J, SWALE. July 18, 1987.
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