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Title: | Blood Bank Open at Hospital | Authors: | Central Coast Express | Issue Date: | 27-Jan-1967 | Abstract: | Article regarding Gosford District Hospital in the Central Coast Express Newspaper, 27th January 1967. "Blood Bank Open at Hospital". Image 1: A group representing Gosford Apex Club, Gosford Inner Wheel and the Gosford branch of the Red Cross Society was shown the new Gosford Hospital Blood Bank by the secretary of the hospital, Neville Boyce (extreme left), last Monday afternoon, Sister Shirley Day (foreground and to the right), who is in charge of the section explains the workings of the bank's agitator to some of the visitors. At left is Gosford District Hospital Board Chairman and shire president, Cr. Bob Vaughan, then Mr Bick Newton (president of Gosford Inner Wheel Club), Mrs C. Timmins, Mrs A. K. Margin (president of Gosford Red Cross), Mrs. T Arkins, Mrs Newton and Mrs Bob Vaughan. Image 2: Sister Day shows the new refrigeration unit for blood to Mrs Bob Vaughan | Description: | "Blood Bank Open at Hospital" describes the opening of the Blood Bank at Gosford District Hospital in January 1967. The blood bank was opened prematurely to give much needed blood to a patient in the hospital. Sister Day, in charge of the service, speaks about the need for new donors. Currently 500 people in the shire are giving blood but 2,000 are needed. The blood bank replaces the mobile units that visited the shire twice a year. Every year one person in eighty require blood. | URI: | https://elibrary.cclhd.health.nsw.gov.au/cclhdjspui/handle/1/544 | Publicaton type: | Memorabilia | Subject: | Newspaper Articles;Gosford District Hospital;Blood Bank |
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