DUTY NEGLECTED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9

DUTY NEGLECTED

DOCTOR "LEAVES" THE SERVICE

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to "The Evening Post.")

CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. "Dr. Minty has left the service of the hospital owing to his having absented himself when supposed to bo on duty." This clause appeared in the report of the Hospital Committee to the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday, and was adopted. At a later stago tho chairman (Mr. H. J. Otley) said that in connection with the complaint made by' Miss E. J. M. Cardale at the last meeting of the board that a jockey named Webster had been left at the hospital for two hours without treatment, the report was not quite accurate. It was quito true that the doctor who was supposed to bo on duty in tho ward was not present.

"Dr. Minty had taken French leave and was away at tho United courts playing tennis," he said.

Miss Cardale asked who saw tho patient when ho was first admitted: was it a nurse?

The chairman explained that when a patient was admitted ho was seen by a doctor and then sent to a ward. A patient was seen by a doctor when he first entered tho hospital. There was no further discussion on the matter.