HOSPITAL PATIENTS

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 172, 17 April 1942, Page 5

HOSPITAL PATIENTS

Transfer Of 200 To Otaki

Only recently some £lB,OOO was spent in extending the facilities of the Otaki Health Camp for children, which has done conspicuously good work during the past li years. >ow it has been c- mmandee.ed by tae Wellington Hospital authorities, and the sum of £lO,OOO lets been placed on the estimates to make further alterations and extensions there and possibly to Hie Capitol Hotel, half a mile away, which is also being taken over by the hospital board for the accommodation of medical cases from, the Wellington Hospital. The task of evacuating some 200 patients a distance of 50 miles is no light one. Arrangements arc being made between Hie hospital superintendent and Mr. F. Roffo, superintendent of the Wellington Free Ambulance, to transfer the patients, possibly some day next week, as Hie premises at Otaki are almost ready for the reception of the new inmates. Sixty-tive are sitting eases, and the rest stretcher cases, and probably St. Joint Ambulance stretcher-bearers will bo requisitioned to handle the latter at both ends of the journey. It is considered that, with the use of a military ambulance train, the whole job could bo satisfactorily carried out in one day