The digital television upgrade has been rolled out in Southern District Health Board hospitals but patients will have to move to their ward's lounges to watch it.
Southern District Health Board building and property acting manager Geoff Padman said the digital television infrastructure upgrade was complete at all sites.
The upgrade provided digital aerial outlets in the two lounges at the end of each floor of the wards.
The paediatrics ward being built would include the same digital television infrastructure, he said.
There were no plans to install aerial outlets for patients to watch television in wards.
''Consideration has been given to installing digital television outlets in the wards, additional to the existing outlets in the lounges, but this will depend on the availability of funding and must be balanced against other infrastructure priorities.''
The Dunedin South Rotary Club donated $20,000 to the cost of the digital upgrade for the lounges, Mr Padman said.
