Nmp Performs Major
p. 64 · Read in the full issue
Operation
From Our Own Correspondent
Mangaia, May 30.
A NATIVE Medical Practitioner, Manea Tamarua, recently performed an emergency operation at Mangaia upon a native whose life could be saved only by that last resource. The opera tion was successful.
This practitioner is the first since the NMP system was instituted to attempt upon such an isolated island, a task that would seem hazardous even to a Euro pean surgeon in a fully-equipped hospital.
This is the second emergency operation he has performed. His success is an accolade for native practitioners in general.
It has now been suggested that the island purchase, by communal subscrip tion, a set of instruments (estimated to cost £5O), and erect, by working bee, a suitable edifice for their use.