Napier Mayor Says Hospital Costs Are “Completely Crazy”
Hospital costs in New Zealand were becoming ‘‘completely crazy” said the Mayor, Mr. T. W. Hercock at this ■week’s meeting of the Napier City Council.
The discussion was initiated by advice from the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board of its intention to raise a loan of £30,000 for the accommodation of male nurses at Napier and additions to the nurses’ home at Hastings. “Wards that are now contemplated will cost £4OOO per bed. and it will cost £3500 for every nurse,” said Mr. Dowling. “The proportion of nurses to patients has grown until at the end of 1949 there was one nurse for every 1.6 patients. In New Zealand 19,000 people are employed in hospitals and there are still vacancies.”
“I have been perturbed for a long time about hospital costs but at the present time I am afraid to express what is in my mind,” said the Mayor. “These costs are becoming crazy, completely crazy. Instead of a healthy country we are becoming a nation of broken down crocks.”
The council decided to approve of the hospital board’s project.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23321, 2 August 1950, Page 4
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