Annual report of the Sarawak Government Medical Department.

  • Sarawak. Medical Department.
Date:
[1962]
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Credit: Annual report of the Sarawak Government Medical Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    33. In addition there were a further thirty-three Government sponsored students and eleven serving officers undergoing training in medical or para¬ medical subjects at the end of the year as shown in the following table, making a total of forty-four in all:— * Course United Malaya or Colombo Plan Total Medicine Kingdom 1 Singapore 2 Countries 17 20 Dentistry — 2 1 3 Pharmacy — — 1 1 Dental Nursing — 8 8 General Nursing 4 — 1 5 Mental Nursing 1 — — 1 Physiotherapy — —— 1 1 Dental Mechanic — 1 — 1 Social Welfare —— — 2 2 Leprosy — physiotherapy — — 1 1 Radiography — — 1 1 44 34. As in previous years, valuable help in the training of personnel of all kinds has been received from Colombo Plan countries, and in particular from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Canada has already granted scholarships in Medicine to sixteen students and a further four have been chosen to go there very shortly. New Zealand is training four girls in dental nursing each year for the school dental service, and Australia is providing short courses in radiography, mental nursing, dispensing and operating theatre techniques in addition to degree courses in medicine and dentistry. Further offers of help under the Colombo Plan have recently been received from neighbouring territories such as Singapore and Malaya and this increasing assistance from countries in which conditions closely approximate to those pertaining in Sarawak, is particularly welcome. As a result of these offers, scholarships have been awarded to students to study dentistry, public health, dental mechanics and social welfare, in either Singapore or Malaya, and it is also hoped next year to send nurses for public health nursing training. 35. During the year two Colombo Plan scholarships were granted by India to a medical officer and a senior hospital assistant, for study courses at the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, South India. The former studied the operative treatment of leprosy patients suffering from deformities, and the latter preventive physiotherapy. It is planned to send another hospital assistant in 1963, for training in theatre technique, and post-operative ward care. 36. World Health Organisation fellowships were awarded, during the year to a medical officer to take part in a training course in the epidemiology and control of tuberculosis in Prague, and to an entomological technician to attend a training course in entomology, conducted by a W.H.O. Entomologist and members of the national staff of the North Borneo Malaria Eradication Project.