Previous Episode: Audrey Soutar: Memories of the early days of the NHS
Ena Munro was brought in the Fort William area and came to Edinburgh in 1949 aged 18 years to train at Leith Hospital as a nurse. She talks about the hospitals in Edinburgh at the time, a year as a midwife at Elsie Ingles and nursing in the community. She returned to Leith Hospital in the early 1950s to work as a staff nurse on a surgical ward. She remained here until her retirement in the mid 1980s. Fascinating stories of an army trained matron at Leith Hospital, home births at Greenside and cooking boiled eggs on the ward for the patients' tea. Its always good to be reminded of how precious and important our Health Service is and how it is such an important part of our lives.