WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 133, 2 December 1944, Page 9

WOMEN'S HOSPITAL

NEED FOR TEACHING CENTRE P-A. NEW PLYMOUTH Dec 1 Questioned in reference to probable repercussions of the Auckland Hospital Board action in.delaying its dcciEX*"? 61?! its\.sul>-committ!e re?SSmended allocating the Wallace Block for temporary accommodation of the Women's Teaching Centre, Auckland! Dr. Dons Gordon, of Stratford, speaking as secretary of the Dominion committee appointed four years ago to correlate lay, academic, and medical opinion, said she could state that great Dominion interest hinged upon Aueck di e a Cn Sd 10S^d° W "»*> the

A joint deputation of Federated Cc"«try Women's Associations had waited on the Minister of Health (Mr Nordrneyer) two days ago urging cxl^ 10? urn °rga™sing this postgraduate hospital and had received a most cordial reply, she said. A meeting of city women's groups was arranghJr toi? c theS Wellington on' December 13 to thank the Government for its promise of a new hospital and to urge haste in the provision of adequate temporary accommodation. The need for such a post-graduate hospital for rehabilitation needs of Army doctors was demonstrated two weeks ago when 30 young doctors gathered at Auckland for a brief five days' post-graduate course m women's work, when for lack of facilities, the only experience offering was the possibility of watching and listening, as opposed to a proper post-graduate course of from six to eight weeks residential, intensive experience, with actual conduct of the work themselves.