Physiotherapist In Djakarta

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31985, 12 May 1969, Page 2

Physiotherapist In Djakarta

no New Zealand Iquraay physiotherapist, Mias Christine Shepheard. of Christchurch, has had to change her training programme because of the demand for her services in Djakarta. This information has been given in Auckland by the

Rev. M. Feist, of the Leprosy Mission 1 The programme recently agreed upon between the mission and the Government of

Indonesia involved the establishment at a leprosarium near Djakarta, of a mission team to teach to Indonesian medical people the specialised surgery, nursing, and physiotherapy for the rehabilitation of persons with leprosy. The first members of the mission team have now arrived in Djakarta, and the first property has been bought Miss Shepheard has gone there with the Australian business manager to arrange for her residence permit and a flat in which to live. She was to have gone to North Thailand to observe the setting up of a similar surgery unit there. However, Government leprologists in Indonesia were so eager for her to begin work that the Thailand visit was cancelled and she began almost immediately lecturing the senior medical students, who speak English- ‘ Miss Shepheard took a “crash" course in Indonesian at Melbourne University ' early this year, and now is having intensive coaching to ’ enable hey to lecture to . nurses and paramedical work- ' era in their own tongue.