Surgeon Wanted For Medical Team

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 12

Surgeon Wanted For Medical Team

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON, Jan. 29. A surgeon ii missing from a New Zealand medical team being set up in South Vietnam. So far no surgeon is available for the two-year assignment. The undertaking is under Colombo Plan aid. A number of surgeons had been interested in the project but had found themselves unable to accept the post because of commitments, said a spokesman for the External Affairs Department’s external aid division today; A doctor from Gisborne, the general practitioner of the team, is already in Qui Nhon, the east coast town 300 miles north-east of Saigon where the New Zealanders

will be stationed. He is Dr. B. E. W. CaldweU. An anaesthetist, Dr. T. S. Jaquiery, of Wellington, is expected to leave for Vietnam next month.

A bacteriologist, Mr R. Mackenzie, with his wife and four children, left Wellington by air today on his way to Qui Nhon. He will be both bacteriologist and laboratory and X-ray technician. For the last two years Mr Mackenzie has been charge bacteriologist at Masterton Hospital Mrs Mackenzie was a ward sister at Wellington Hospital before her marriage. Miss M. C. McKay, of Wellington, has left for Vietnam as the team’s theatre sister. Another trained nurse is still to be appointed. This is the firdt surgical team to go from New Zealand. The hospital to which it will be attached is expected to be completed by the end of this month. Qui Nhon is the provincial capital of Binh Dinh province and is about 15 degrees north of the Equa tor.