WHO Moves
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To Suva
The World Health Organisa tion representative in the South Pacific, Dr. L. O. Roberts, is moving his headquarters from Sydney to Suva in January. This will get him closer to the scene of WHO’s expanding work in the South Seas.
“Fiji is pretty much the hub of the South Pacific,” Dr.
Roberts said in Sydney in De cember, when he announced the new move. The WHO Sydney office was established in 1956.
Dr. Roberts will have an ad ministrative assistant with him in Suva, plus a WHO engineer, a doctor and a nurse handling maternal and child welfare matters and a doctor for general public health.
WHO teams are working in many islands at the moment.
The work programme for 1965 includes sanitation and water problems in Tonga and Western Samoa, malaria eradication in the BSIP, TB in the New Hebrides and Western Samoa.