Leprosy funds
About $lOO,OOO more has been allocated to the South Pacific area for leprosy relief, compared with last year, because of a successful “Leper Man" appeal. The allocations this year total $56,500.
The chairman of the Leprosy Trust Board, Mr A. H. T. Rose, said that if the board was to keep up its level of work, and beat inflation, each year had to record a record appeal. He said that the way in which the money was spent had changed during the last few years — “we do not put it into bricks and mortar as we used to.”
“Our main role is to support the church medical mis-
sions and the medical departments of the Island governments, in maintaining treatment centres and clinics. The money goes towards drugs, transport, personnel, education, and leprosy surveys,” he said.
The 1981 allocations are — church medical missions in the Solomon- Islands, Vanuatu. and Bougainville, $201,000; Government medical departments in the Solomons. Vanuatu. Fiji, Western Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia. Kiribati. Tuvalu, and Tahiti, $221,000; education. research, and sundries (including $57,000 for research and liaison with the World Health Organisation), $134,500.
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