Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1965
University Daily Kansan
Page 3
KU Hospital Has Cramps-Operation Needed
By Jerry Kern
Intense overcrowding at Watkins Memorial Hospital is causing it to lose pace with the increasing needs of a university hospital, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, acting director,
said.
Over 63,000 cases were received through the front office of Watkins last year. These cases included the
KU-Y Groups Begin Membership Drive
Bv Earl Haehl
A group of 27 KU-Y campaign teams will be on field today, tomorrow and Thursday recruiting 1965-66 members.
According to Tom Moore, director of the KU-Y, there will be more teams working, bringing the total to 40.
The campaigners will contact the 707 students who have indicated a desire to join the KU-Y on the religious preference cards.
TO REACH ALL of the students, the campus and living areas have been divided into four wards. Campaigners will contact students in their own areas.
Moore said no pressure tactics will be used to get members. The campaigners will be graded on the number of calls they make.
The purpose of the calls is to acquaint the new students with the KU-Y and the various programs of the organization. New members can join the KU-Y or can volunteer for specific areas which interest them, Moore said.
PROGRAMS INCLUDE everything from a model UN to a children's hour. The KU-Y also sponsors the Rock Chalk Revue in the
spring. For winter sports fans, there is a ski club which travels to Colorado during vacations.
Traffic Stacked By Go-Go Girls
Volunteers can perform such tasks as working with handicapped children, teaching swimming, and running other activities, Moore said. They can also help primary grade teachers in the Lawrence schools.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —(UPI)— Scantily clad Go-go girls doing the frug, monkey, swim, watius and other dances in show windows of night clubs are causing traffic problems.
"Traffic backed up two blocks in front of one place a couple of weeks ago and there was a wreck in front of another." Elmo M. Hargrave, associate city counselor, said.
The volunteers do a bulk of the office work too. They also put out the official KU-Y Jayhawker, a weekly newsletter. In addition the KU-Y offers a tutoring service, run by volunteers.
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After an evening of recruiting, the campaigners will meet at 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in the Big Eight Room and the membership meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
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administration of shots to the performance of major operations.
Dr. Schwegler said this condition places Watkins far beyond its capacity. He pointed out several existing conditions which necessitate serious thought of expansion.
First, enough office space is not available for all the doctors on the staff. The small front office, which has only one small window to receive student patients, is lacking in storage and operating space.
ACROSS FROM the front office window is a similar window for the pharmacy department. This department handled about 40,000 prescriptions last year, Dr. Schwegler said.
The pharmacy department's problem is even more acute than is the front office's problem, he said. Because of the tremendous volume of prescriptions handled and a minimum of space, much of the pharmaceutical material must be stored in the basement of the building.
"This means highly paid workers must be running back and forth
"The cost of such an expansion project would be roughly $1 million to $1 1/2 million. Such a project is expensive because of the immense plumbing and electrical equipment needed for a hospital." Dr. Schwegler said.
DR. SCHWEGLER proposed that the basement of this new wing be used for storage, the first level as a clinic and the second level as a psychic ward. The top levels could be used for increasing the bed patient capacity as well as leaving room for future expansion, he said.
from the basement to the pharmacy department which takes up student time and wastes many man hours." Dr. Schwedler said.
"It is necessary to keep a steady flow of patients moving through the hospital. Students should be in class—not waiting in the hospital." Dr. Schwegler said.
He feels that the basic design of the building would not have to be changed. A wing built on the west side of the building would solve Watkins' space shortage, he said.
The major problem, therefore, is one of space.
"Three pharmacists working abreast from behind a wide counter would be able to add much expediency to the prescription service."
lems, but it would also expedite the flow of patients merely by the advantages of the Y-shaped design of the building, if such a wing were constructed.
ACCORDING TO the Kansas Health Service, the ratio of doctors to patients should be one doctor for 1,000 patients. Dr. Schweigler said it is practical to have one doctor for 2,000 patients. This would mean at least seven or eight doctors for KU which Watkins already has.
This expansion would not only relieve storage and operative prob-
It would require one to two years to devise the plans and for the new addition to become operative, he said.
Dr. Schwegler said the situation which exists at Watkins will become an explosive issue within the next five years, unless a plan for expansion of the hospital is initiated.