for Papua-N. Guinea
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More Migrant Doctors for Papua-N. Guinea
AN attractive young Yugoslavian woman doctor was among a party of 22 migrant medicos who left Sydney for Papua-New Guinea on April 15 to join the medical services there. She is Dr.
Blanka Pracen who, since she came to Australia 11 months ago, has worked as a domestic and as a nurse in a mental hospital. She completed her medical course at Graz, Austria, just after the out break of World War II but during the war the Nazis forced her to work in munitions and tobacco factories.
The party of doctors —the second to go to the Territory in recent months —included Czechs, Poles, Ukrainians, Hun garians, Latvians, Lithuanians and Es tonians. Their degrees are not recognised in Australia. Most of them said they hoped to settle permanently in New Guinea —they could not afford years of study to qualify for Australian medi cal degrees.