HIGH PRAISE FOR NURSES

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 60, 14 February 1941, Page 6

HIGH PRAISE FOR NURSES

High praise for the efficiency of New Zealand nurses in Egypt and for the hospital for Dominion troops in Cairo is paid by a Y.M.C.A. field i officer in a letter to a friend in Dune- , din. “The Second General Hospital for New Zealanders,” he writes, “is a magnificent building, having been one of the luxury hotels of the Middle East even up to the time of its conversion into a hospital. It is of three floors and has over one hundred large rooms, each holding four patients. Since acquiring it the Army has enlarged the building by four additional long wards, each catering for 50 patients.. The staff is entirely a New Zealand one and perhaps the greatest pleasure a man can have in coming to hospital lies in the opportunity it provides for conversation with New Zealand women. Our New Zealand doctors and nurses are extraordinarily efficient and in letters of Australian patients I have read such remarks as ‘these New Zealand nurses certainly deliver .the goods and I think they are 50 per cent, better than our own,’ and ‘these New Zealand natives certainly do things well; their nurses are marvellous.’ The food is good and appetisingly served; the library is catholic in taste and adequate in supply; and the officers’ and men’s recreating rooms are furnished tastefully.”

A little evacuee had been served with a chicken leg. After turning it this way and that to cut it, she asked: “Do you mind if I have something else besides the hinges?’