For Fiji

New Medical Centre For Fiji Building to Begin

A GRANT of £185,000 has recently been made to the Fiji Government by the United Kingdom under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act.

The grant will be used to make a be ginning on the new Fiji Medical Centre which will incorporate the existing Colonial War Memorial Hospital and auxiliary institutions.

The Centre wil be built in three stages.

The £185,000 now granted will build the first stage and one item from the second.

The work covered will be: New Central Medical School and student hostel (£60,000); nurses’ training school and hostel (£80,000); extension of existing ob stetric wing (£15,000); new out-patients department at Colonial War Memorial Hospital (£30,000).