Nursing, Honiara Style!
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TITHES' Sister Heather Reid returned to ** Hamilton, NZ, in August, after two years of service at Honiara hospital, she described the conditions suffered by staff and patients in the remains of an American war building.
During operations, native spectators have to be driven from the wire-netting walls of the open-air operating theatre.
The roofs leak. Plumbing and sanitation do not function. All water has to be carried. It is impossible to isolate in fectious cases.
When a patient is admitted, the whole family moves in with him, and often tries to use the one bed. The patient, in bed one minute with a temperature of 105, will be found on the beach with his
friends a few minutes later. with a food allowance of 7/- per day, and with canned butter at 7/- per ib, fresh mutton at 4/6, and other food prices proportionate, the staff does not uve in luxury.
The Courrier Australien, in re porting the arrival of a shipment 0 f 35 jeeps from America recently, notes the great popularity Of this little vehicle in New Caledonia, es pecially in the country districts.