Wrangle over cancer machine

Bureaucratic wrangling is how the National Party is describing the feud between the government and the Capital and Coast District Health Board over the cost of commissioning a cancer radiation machine.

The Government's agreed to buy the linear accelerator for Wellington Hospital, but only if the DHB pays the half a million dollars needed to get it up and running.

National Party Health spokesman Tony Ryall says hundreds of cancer patients are going to have their treatment delayed because of what he calls a bureaucratic muck up. He says at a time where more and more people are being diagnosed with cancer, the argument is too stupid to believe.

source : news.yahoo.com