NEW SOLOMONS HOSPITAL
Service For Gela Island
A new hospital to serve the island of Gela in the Solomon Islands is being provided by the New Zealand Leper Trust Board. The hospital, which will be at the Melanesian Mission’s station at Taroaniara, is to be the property of the mission which will staff it. Work on the building is due to begin this week.
Gela is 20 miles long by up to five miles wide, and has about 4500 people. Up to now, the nearest hospital beds have been at the Government Central Hospital, Honiara, 25 miles by sea across the Iron-Bottom Sound.
The building work will be carried out by Solomon Islanders trained and employed by the mission. The cost will be about £5OOO. The Leper Trust Board will provide £3OOO and the remainder will come from a bequest by Mr W. Davies of Auckland
The hospital will have four maternity and eight general beds. The most common serious diseases suffered by the islanders are malaria, tuberculosis. and pneumonia. The matron will be Miss C. Woods, a former member of the mission staff, who for the last eight years has been matron of the central hospital.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29898, 11 August 1962, Page 8
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