NURSING STAFF SHORT
N. WAIROA HOSPITAL (P .\ ) DARGAVILLE, March 5. The cumultative effects of sh °P a °F s of nursing staff at .the Northern Watroa Hospital have now reached such s ta«e that until a solution is lound only urgent cases will be admitted and only in exceptional instances will chl ° nic cases be admitted to the institution. Behind this curtailment of hos P lta * services is a story of lengthy peuods of over-work imposed on the reduetd nursing staff which the staff finds it L now unable .to maintain. A shortage ot nursing aids; hj id t sulied in sisters working seven days a -rite' -iris cannot stand that indoflnifsly and they are not going to be LiLj tn stand it, commented Mi. uStall worthy, chairman of the Kaipara H lint ii sufficient staff was available the restrictions would continue. —-
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21963, 6 March 1946, Page 6
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