Annual report of the Sarawak Government Medical Department.

  • Sarawak. Medical Department.
Date:
[1957]
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Credit: Annual report of the Sarawak Government Medical Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 3 - experience of this type of training never ceases to he amazed at the facile way in which these unschooled girls so quickly learn and become exceedingly sensible and practical midwives. Y/hen they return to their own villages and longhouses some of them revert to their normal lives although of course their services are available but most are employed as midwives by the Local Authorities who have in some cases established special clinics for them. The midwife training programme is developing along very satisfactory lines indeed. The training of nurses, male and female, and other medical personnel such as laboratory technicians and dispensers, continued in Sibu and Kuching. The syllabus and curriculum of training have been designed to conform as far as possible with the training of nurses in the U.K. with the idea of one day achieving reciprocity of registration. Very close liaison was maintained with the other British territories in Borneo and also with the Oil Company, which has its own hospitals and nurses1 training schools, to maintain as far as possible uniformity and with this object in view examiners for the nurses1 examinations were exchanged during the year. Nurses trained by Sarawak Oilfields Ltd. , who successfully passed examinations conducted by the joint examiners were given Sarawak Government certificates. Medical training on a considerable scale outside of Sarawak continued as the following table shows:-