PAYMENT BY STATE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 5

PAYMENT BY STATE

HOSPITAL CHARGES

PREPARING MEN FOR ABROAD

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 26. Remedial treatment at the expense of the Government is to be provided for certain men who have been classed as temporarily unfit for active service .overseas, according to a letter from I the Director-General of Health (Dr. ,Watt), received by the Auckland Hospital Board. This will not apply to men who have been classed as temporarily unfit for the Territorial Force. ! Dr. Watt said he had been advised of this decision by the Army Department. On receiving notice from the medicaJ superintendent in his daily sick report that a recruit was to be discharged from hospital or that his treatment would be completed, arrange, ments would be made for his examination by a medical board before his discharge or immediately on completion of treatment. i The letter added that approval had ibeen obtained for out-patient treatment afforded to sick and wounded person!nel of the Royal New Zealand Air [Force and the New Zealand Division of the RoyaJ Navy at two-thirds of the usual charges of the boards con,cerned=>Payments made by the Government under these arrangements are to be accepted by boards in full satisfaction of their charges.