Refugees helped

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33514, 20 April 1974, Page 16

Refugees helped

C.0.R.5.0. is supporting a medical clinic for 12.000 Mozambique refugees at Rutamba. a settlement in Tanzania, and efforts to make the settlement self-reliant are remarkable, savs a Blenheim man, Mr C. W. S. Truell. in a message home.

“In the settlement there are six villages. There are two primary schools, one medical clinic, a cashew nut factory a model or demonstration (farm, and a co-operalne farm.” Mr Truell said. "In accordance with the policy of Tanzania, the settlement has become increasingly self-reliant, and now func tions with a minimum of Government assistance.

He has visited both the primary schools and said he was very impressed, but there was a shortage of school materials. He visited the clinic, to which C.0.R.5.0. had contributed $10,500 in 1972. The clinic has approximately 600 out-patients per day. It comprises of examination rooms, laboratories, a drug store, minor operating room, labour and maternity wards, and surgical rooms. He said the equipment was not very good but it was adequate.