By CHRIS & DE WYTT, CAROLYN STRAKOSCH
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The new high-rise block was built by contractors, McDougall and Ireland. It opened in 1980 and was known as the Multistorey Wing. A modern, air-conditioned building, it was cool in the Brisbane summer and warm in the winter. But many patients felt it lacked the character of the old wards, which had large, floor-to-ceiling windows (French doors) that opened wards to the outside. Something of the old spirit of Greenslopes, it was thought, was lost in the modernisation. Multistorey Wing construction, 1980.
The Soviet Union, a communist ally of North Korea, had the power to veto the resolution. But, at the time the vote was taken, the Soviet Union was boycotting the Council to protest the UN’s refusal to grant membership to another communist ally, The People’s Republic of China. Australia sent a volunteer force to assist the United States-lead war effort. In 1952, with the Korean campaign coming to a close, the first nursing graduation ceremony was held at the Greenslopes hospital. Prior to this, nurses had to complete their training elsewhere.
The equipment had been brought from London by special arrangement between transmission equipment manufacturer, AWA, and The Courier-Mail. Also in the 1950s, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein visited patients in the hospital. Royal Tour 1954. 39 Viscount Montgomery with nursing staff at RGH Greenslopes. 40 Virginia Paris singing to patients, 1957. 41 42 Healing the Wounds of War Aerial view of RGH Greenslopes, circa 1950. 42 43 Greenslopes Hospital - 1942 to 2002 1960 In 1960, Dr Bill Exton was appointed Medical Superintendent of Greenslopes and remained in that position until 1976.