Memorial Fund Helps Fiji

Anti-Tb Campaign

THE Fiji anti-tuberculosis campaign is now well under way, but it is un likely that an organised appeal will be made this year for more money for the War Memorial Anti-TB Fund.

This fund, which is Fiji’s war memorial, was launched last year, and, with the Government subsidy, provided £B2 000.

It was proposed that supplementary appeals would be launched each year, but although large orders for equipment have been made, most of these will not be fulfilled until next year and the Trustees do not expect to be called upon to make heavy payments from * the original fund this year.

Already a fourth ward has been added to the TB hospital at Tamavua and a 20-bed TB addition has been made to the Lautoka hospital. The Trustees have

also bought two Land Rovers which are being used in the BCG vaccination campaign—over 4,000 of these injections have been given already this year. Two mobile X-Ray units are also being pro vided by the Trustees.