INDIAN SURGEON
VISIT TO STUDY HOSPITAL CONDITIONS (P.A. ' AUCKLAND, Nov. 4. An Indian surgeon, Dr M. R. Cholkar, director of Congress Medical Scission to Malaya, arrived in. Auckland from Sydney by air on thelatter stages of a tour he has been making of several .countries studying hospitals and medical facilities; Leaving India last April, Dr Cholkar visited Siam, and spent nearly six weeks in. Australia before coming on to New Zealand, where be will remain about 10 days. ■ ; .-V . • . ..V . Dr, Cholkar said lie was director of a mission sent to Malay by Congress to carry on medical work until the country had sufficiently recovered from the war to be able to conduct its own medical services.; -There was a paucity of doctors, and medical supplies in Malay after the war, and the 'mission functioned fori three months after the reoccuptaion. Over 125,000 (Malayans were treated at centres which were set up throughout the country, and. the 1 mission had now returned to India. A member of the Faculty of Medicine at Nagpur University, Dr Cholkar has a private.practice in the same city. He was deputy-leader of another medical mission sent by the Indian Government to China during; the war with Japan in 1938. \
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Evening Star, Issue 25941, 5 November 1946, Page 4
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