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WHO Considers Help to Suva Medical School
Professor J. H. Strahan,
Adviser to the World Health Organisation, recently paid a visit to Fiji to study the Assistant Medical Practitioner training scheme at first hand.
He said that WHO was consid ering financing two lecturers to the Central Medical School to aid in the training of AMP’s.
The lecturers would teach biology and physiology respectively. Pro fessor Strahan, together with the Director of Medical Services, South Pacific Health Service, visited a number of hospitals in Fiji before
leaving for New Zealand to attend an international dental conference.
Sandy Creek Gold Sluicing Ltd advised that, during June, 56 ozs. 5 dwt. of gold was recovered from 8,060 cubic yards of material treated.
The Rev. D. C. Gribble, general secretary of the Methodist Over seas Mission, sard in Rabaul, NG, on July 10, that the George Brown College at Vunarima, which was wrecked during the war, would be rebuilt. Stewart hospital would also be rebuilt, and child welfare posts established in primitive areas. The Mission hoped soon to have nine triple-certificated nurses. Twenty five mission houses had been built since the war.