POLISH MEDICAL STUDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25160, 16 April 1947, Page 6

POLISH MEDICAL STUDENTS

ADMISSION TO OTAGO UNIVERSITY

REQUEST RECEIVED BY COUNCIL (P.A.) DUNEDIN, April 15 A request that the University of Otago should consider finding places for a proportion of the 75 Polish medi cal students at present in a military camp in Britain was received from the advisory and relief secretary of th P International Student Service and dis cussed at the monthly meeting of the University Council to-day. The letter stated that the men were awaiting their absorption into th® Polish Resettlement Corps. They had been with The army of General Anders in Italy, and since the end of the war they had been continuing their medi cal studies at the faculty of medicine* in Bologna. They had all completed at least two years’ medical study, and some of them had reached their fifth year. Because of the overcrowded con dition of the universities in Britain" there was no possibility for them tn continue their studies in that country Moreover, unless places could be found for them in medical schools else when* they would rapidly be drafted into in dustry, agriculture, or mines, and th* value of their years of study would be

All medical schools in the Dominions were being asked to find places for a small number of these students th* letter added. However small the num ber of students which Otago might be able to receive, the council would b* certain that it would be bringing new hope and purpose into so many live* The financial requirements of tb.w students was assured, if only thev could receive acceptance into medical schools. The chancellor, the Very Rev D r Herron, said that while he was symoa thetic with the request, he could not see that when New Zealand students were being turned away from th* medical school there could be much hope for the Polish students.

The letter was referred to the medi cal faculty for a report.