Doctors short in Vietnam
South Vietnam has a real shortage of doctors compared with New Zealand, according to Dr D. Scott yesterday at the annual meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Save the Children Fund.
Dr Scott has recently returned from the Qui Nhon Hospital in South Vietnam, where he was a physician and worked , with two Vietnamese doctors. They were in charge of 70 beds in the 450-bed hospital. "When I hear people complaining about the shortage of doctors in New Zealand I have very little sympathy for them,” Dr Scott said. Dr Scott said that there were three hospitals in the Qui Nhon area, which served a population of one million. Included was a children’s hospital run by the Save the Children Fund.
The New Zealand fund pays the salary of a New Zealand doctor and a New Zealand nurse, and finances a health visiting team at this hospital. The fund has contributed $372,900 to this work, and has supplied $30,000 to $40,000 worth of milk powder.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33577, 4 July 1974, Page 14
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