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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