[?]e of Migrant

[?]ctors in P-NG Health

iSIDENTS of Papua and New Guinea would be badly off for medical attention if it were not the migrant doctors who make almost 50 per cent, of the itory’s medical service, lese doctors have foreign ical degrees not recognised in :ralia by the BMA, but have l selected for Territory service r careful investigation by the G Director of Health, any of the foreign doctors were ialists in their own countries, the benefit of specialist medical is now available to Terri ins and natives as it never was re. tere still are not enough doctors r-NG, but this is a shortage non to all British Common th countries at the present In order to provide for re needs of the Territory whose Llation is expanding at a high the Administration has a t system whereby it pays the of selected medical students l third year on, plus a salary, ;r an agreement whereby the mts when qualified, will serve a specific period in the itory. l official announcement by the irtment of Territories in January lied that 36 of the 74 doctors ;he Territories are migrants, ided in these figures is one ant doctor in private practice, working with church missions 17 Australian doctors working de the Public Service.