N.Z. Equipment For Tanzanian Hospital
New Zealand-made equipment that can save a hospital hundreds of dollars a year in reducing the cost of making X-rays has been given by the Rotary Club of Riccarton to the radiology department of the Dar Es Salaam Hospital in Tanzania.
The equipment was handed over on Saturday by the club’s president (Mr J. G. Dunstan) to Miss K. Dawson, daughter of Dr and Mrs J. R. Dawson, of Christchurch, who is working as a radiographer at the hospital. Miss Dawson, who has been working at the hospital for two years under the British Volunteer Service Overseas scheme, has returned to Tanzania after a holiday in New Zealand. The equipment recovers silver deposited when X-ray films are fixed after development Previously, the used solution containing the silver had to be discarded, but with the device it can be recovered by electrolysis and sold. Provision of the silver recovery unit is one of several projects which the Rotary Club of Riccarton has undertaken through its international services committee.
Dawson is a Member and past president of the club—to Tanzania to see their daughter last year.
It arose from a visit by Miss Dawson’s parents—Dr
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32166, 9 December 1969, Page 15
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