SUPPLY OF DOCTORS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1339, 29 May 1918, Page 5 (Supplement)

SUPPLY OF DOCTORS.

DIFFICULTY AHEAD. EFFECT OF SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS [Special to The Sun.] WELLINGTON, May 28. Last week the Director-General of | Medical Services paid a vi-.it to the | Medical School at Dunedin, where ' the Medical Officers' Training Corps jis producing a certain number of young doctors for service with the (Expeditionary Forces. General Hen'derson is impressed with the importance of this school, and with the •loss that New Zealand has sulfercd | on account of a short-sighted policy in the earlier stages of the war. Many | of the student>;. who in the ordinary i course of events would have become fully qualified doctors, were allowed to enlist. Other youths who had jsist entered upon their medical course were drawn in the ballot, exemption being given only to those who had matk some progress in their studies. This was a short-sighted i policy, for to-day New Zealand is not training nearly rs many doctors as are required, and the outlook for the future is decidedly bad. owinq Ito the lack of fresh students. It is i in the interests of the whole country that the Medical Sthi.ol should be full, even il that means granting exemption to some tit First Division nun. The young doctors become available for military service as soon as they have completed their studies.