Annual medical report / Colony and Protectorate of Kenya.

  • Kenya. Medical Department.
Date:
[1954]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual medical report / Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    12/76 (page 4)
    The following is a comparison of expenditure under the main sub-heads for the half-year period 1954 and against the same period for the year 1953: — 1953 1954 Personal Emoluments £ 345,307 £ 363,985 Travelling Expenses .. 25,490 25,509 Medical and Surgical Stores ment and Equip- 112,219 112,148 Maintenance and Upkeep Establishments of Medical 68,333 69,463 Miscellaneous . . . . 49,429 52,636 Non-recurrent (Purchase of Capital Grants, etc.) . . Transport, 21,124 58,662 621,902 682,303 TRAINING The new block of classrooms and offices of the Medical Training School, Nairobi, was opened by His Excellency the Governor on 23rd February, 1954. This has proved to be a very great boon as formerly all instruction was carried out in temporary buildings. It is becoming increasingly evident that the present arrangement whereby different grades are trained in different places should be terminated as soon as possible. At present Hospital Assistants and Nurses are being trained at the Medical Training School, Laboratory Assistants obtain their training at the Laboratory, the Sanitation trainees including Health Inspectors, are housed in temporary buildings some miles from Nairobi at leanes School, and Radiographers are trained at Kisumu. It is a matter of great importance and urgency that all medical training should be carried out in the same site at an enlarged and improved Medical Training Centre. We have in fact come to regard this as the highest priority affecting the public health of the country. (It is unfortunate that at the time of writing, no funds are in sight for this essential project as such develop¬ ment funds as remain are fully allocated to other purposes.) The numbers of the various grades in training at the end of the year were as follows: — Hospital Assistants . . . . . . . . 120 Compounders .. .. .. .. .. 11 Laboratory Assistants . . .. . . .. 7 Kenya Registered Nurses .. . . .. 12 Assistant Nurses (Female) . . .. . . 29 Radiographers . . . . .. . . . . 4 Health Inspectors . . .. . . .. 22 Health Assistants .. .. . . .. 48