Canberra Hospital's 50th anniversary

The Canberra Times

The Canberra Hospital has been open for 50 years. An event to mark the occasion was held at the construction site of the new critical services building.

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00:00 The Canberra Hospital is celebrating its 50th birthday.

00:04 The occasion was marked on the construction site of the new Critical Services Building,

00:09 which is due to be completed next year.

00:12 For the occasion, the Canberra Hospital sign on the building was lit up.

00:17 Nurses and midwives Margaret Aldiggs, Susan Gladwish and Margie Braithwaite

00:22 were a key part of this event.

00:24 All of them were at the hospital during its early years.

00:29 Yes.

00:30 Well, Margaret was in the very first group of students,

00:33 one student nurse, I beg your pardon, that started at this hospital in 1973.

00:37 I was in the second group.

00:39 So her group played practical jokes on my group.

00:41 And she was my senior nurse.

00:43 Three months difference.

00:45 So we've known each other for a very long time.

00:47 And we've muddled through a lot of things, haven't we?

00:49 We have.

00:50 Yes.

00:51 Yeah.

00:52 Very first badge.

00:53 Yeah.

00:54 And the midwifery one.

00:55 Oh.

00:56 My badge is badge number 23.

00:59 23.

01:00 And Margie just went, "Whose is badge number three?"

01:04 25, 30, 35 and 40.

01:08 I never got a 45-year badge.

01:10 Oh.

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