ANTI-TB campaign IN P-NG
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Government’s programme X for combating tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea by the application of advanced chest surgery, was one which had never before been attempted on such a scale, on a native race in a tropical climate.
The Minister for Territories, Mr.
Hasluck, said in Canberra in December, that the three thoracic surgical teams which have been operating in the Territory during the past six months had played a big part in the Government’s attack on the disease.
The work of thoracic surgery had been for TB patients who had not responded to medical treatment, and was in addition to mass radio graphy and vaccination surveys.
Mr. Hasluck said that the work of specialist thoracic surgical teams would be resumed after the north west monsoon season had finished; the wet season is not suitable for chest operations.