MEDICAL AND NURSING RESOURCES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 22 May 1915, Page 5

MEDICAL AND NURSING RESOURCES.

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-DOMINION WTL& ETO lkS ■ \ :

1 * # '*** Regarding the statement \ -uedical his board by Dr Barclay, \ Hossuperintendent of the Wellingtons <- ors pital, about the shortage of doa. -, n and nurses, the Bon, X, Besfc^ Rhodes, Minister of PuMic Health, made the following statement tbiis evening: "The Government's decision to equip a hospital, ship and to send additional medical men and nursed ts> tho seat of Avar will undoubtedly tax our medical and nursing resources and put a considerable strain on our hospital system. Nevertheless, I am confident that the Dominion is prepared to make further sacrifices and to put up with many inconveniences in order that her sons, who are so manfully upholding the honor of the flag, may benefit by the best medical and nursing attendance. I am in communication with the medical, nursing and hospital authorities of the Dominion, and I feel sure that their medical officers, matrons and nurses, who for various reasons have not been able to go to the front, will loyally undertake the additional duties and responsibilities to enable as many medical men and nurses to go where their services can be best utilised in this trouble of the Empire. It will doubtless be necessary to relax the regulations, regarding the proportion of trained to untrained nurses in our public and private hospitals. I hope that young vomen will volunteer for service as probationers or helps in their local institutions for the period of the war, if they do not mean to make nursing their profession. The hospital authorities will be advised iio take quite young girls for this work, provided they are in good health -and of sqund' constitution. This being 'essentially a time for service and self-denial, I feel sure .that the Dominion'will rise to the occasion, . and that her daughters .as well as her sons will readily give their services where they can be best utilised j for the common weal." .