STUDY IN MEDICINE
SOLOMON ISLANDER COURSE AT SUVA A through passenger to Sydney by the Niagara: which left Auckland for Sydney on Tuesday, was Guso llato Piko. a young Solomon Islander, who has just completed a four years' course at the Central -Medical School, Suva, qualifying as a certificated native medical practitioner. Piko is returning to the .Solomon Islands, where he will join the medical staff at one of the Government hospitals that have been established \\u-rr-.
Arrangements were made by the British Government for the selection ol two students from each Pacific island administration lor training at Suva, the course to be at the expense of the Government. Piko is the second boy from the Solomon Island;', to have received this training.
Qualified in all bra richer, of medicine and midwifery, the students are capable of performing minor operations and setting bones. The majority of them are capable of carrying out major operations in cases of emergency.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 12
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