INDIGENT MAORI PATIENTS.
COST OF TREATMENT. PROPOSED SCHEME FOR PAYMENT [by telegraph.—own correspondent.] HAMILTON, Friday. The problem of reimbursing hospital boards in connection with the cost of giving treatment and relief to indigent Maoris will bo discussed at the annual conference of Hospital .Boards, to be held at Timaru in February next. Tho following remit has been forwarded by tho Waikato Hospital Board: —"That in respect to moneys held in trust on behalf of Maoris by the Government, or by Maori councils and trust boards, the Government be urged to provide machinery to enable a reasonable portion to be set aside for the purpose of refunding the cost, of hospital treatment and relief of indigent Maoris."
Tho secretary, Mr. E. G. Johnson, explained to the board yesterday that tho idea was that Maoris should form themselves into medical associations or clubs and guarantee a certain sum to the hospital boards in payment for (he treatment and relief of the Maoris in the district in which the organisations were formed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 12
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