Central Medical School
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Graduates For 1943
rIRTEEN students of the Central' Medical School, Suva, Fiji, com pleted their training at the end of 1943. The Advisory Board of the school, has recommended that they be awarded Native Medical Practitioner Certificates.
The successful students are: Pilipe Vulaono, Serupepeli Lomani, Peni Vui yale, Waqa Kubuabola, from Fiji; Mahesh Prasad, an Indian from Fiji; Semest Fonua, from Tonga; William Tela, from the Solomon Islands; John Kalsekau and.
Basil Leodoro, from the New Hebrides,-; and Lene Pilitati, lakopo Esera, Maka.
Sapolu, and Tautasi Faatiga, from West ern Samoa.
The gold medal winners for 1943 were"
Mahesh Prasad (Public Health); Penii Vuiyale (Obstetrics); Tautasi Faatiga (Medicine), and Mahesh Prasad (Sur gery).
Peni Vuiyale was awarded the NMP lelu medal, also.
A special prize, donated by Dr. K. R.
Steenson, has been awarded to Enele Ratumaitavuki for his ability and keen ness in clinical work.
The school re-opened on January 12, after the Christmas vacation. This year there are 15 new students; five Fijians, two Indians, two Solomon Islanders, one New Hebridean, one Tongan, one Gil bertese and three Western Samoans.
Second-Lieut. G. A. Thompson, of the First Battalion, Fiji Defence Forces, has been promoted to temporary Lieutenant.