GENERAL RUSSELLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether complaints have reached him that the medical arrangements for the reception of the wounded British officers at Cairo after the recent campaign were insufficient and unsatisfactory; that seven wounded officers were put into one small ward, and that the nursing staff was entirely inadequate; and whether the Government will order a searching inquiry to be made into this matter?
§ MR. BRODRICKThe ward in the Citadel Hospital, Cairo, in which the seven wounded officers were placed is large and lofty, and the cubic space and superficial area ample. The nursing staff 1170 consisted of five female nurses and over sixty men of the Medical Staff Corps, all of whom are trained as nurses. Every attention is being paid to the men wounded in the recent action.
GENERAL RUSSELLIs the right honourable Gentleman aware that there was only one female nurse told off to attend to the officers?
§ MR. BRODRICKI think my honourable and gallant Friend is in error. What happened was that the superintendent nurse desired to wait on the wounded officers herself, and for that reason the wounded officers got the idea that there was only one nurse able to attend upon them.
§ MR. BRODRICKNo inquiry is needed. The staff of nurses is ample. There is no suggestion at all of any inattention.