Apartheid in medicine
(N.Z P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) SOUTHAMPTON, July 21. A black doctor from South Africa has told a meeting of the British Medical Association in Southampton that working in Britain almost made him forget the colour of his skin—because nobody talked about it.
After hearing Dr Ralph Lawrence compare British conditions with racial discrimination in South Africa, delegates passed a resolution urging the Medical Association of South Africa to do everything possible to instil colour equality in all members of the profession there. Dr Lawrence, who qualified at the University of Cape Town, said that as a student he had to give an undertaking not to attend classes, clinical operations and post mortems on whites or even dissect a white body.
The B.M.A. resolution was proposed by a doctor from London Hospital, Dr Sue Dowling, who alleged that African doctors in South Africa were paid only 48 per cent of white doctors’ pay and Indian and Coloured doctors 52 per cent.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32975, 22 July 1972, Page 15
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