Annual report of the Medical and Health Department / Colony of Seychelles.

  • Seychelles. Medical and Health Department.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical and Health Department / Colony of Seychelles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -4- l6. Finance 1960 1959 1958 Expenditure (estimated) 991,782 856,635 792,622 Expenditure (actual) 954,802 819,486 751,358 Revenue 107,233 92,164 91,370 Colony Expenditure 6 ,731,273 5,866,334 5,395,346 Cost of Medical care per head of population 23.05 18.99 17.93 Hospital Fees Rs. 69,031 II* Nursing and Training 17. The training of nurses continued throughout the year with unabated vigour* The posting of a Matron and the release of the Sister Tutor thereby to her proper function on a whole tine basis permitted an increase of students under training* The Preliminary Training School takes two batches recruits a, year* The number of girls that apply for the nursing profession and for admission to the school always exceeds the vacancies. A preliminary examination weeds out a certain number and the examination taken at the end of the course weeds out a few more. These that survive then start their nursing in the Wards. 18* Every nurse on passing her final nursing then proceeds to train for one year in Midwifery. Up till now no nurse has failed to pass her Final Midwifery examination. 19. The total number of new entrants for training during the year was 13. The total number of trained nurses who began their midwifery training in I960 was 6. 20. There are at present four nurses in England undergoing training in addition to one who gave up the course on account of marriage. Of these four two are males and two females. It is hoped to send others this coming year. 21. In addition to the nurses there is one Laboratory Technician who is working for his A.M.I.L.T. for which he should be sitting in the summer of 1961. It is hoped that he will then return and replace the present head Technician for whom a course on the same subject will be arranged in the United Kingdom. 22. The School of Nursing moved into new quarters early in i960 and now occupies two rooms on the ground floor of the hospital. Both rooms are small and accommodate approximately 16 pupils, 8 in each class room. As the average number in class is 8 they give sufficient accommodation for the present, but should the numbers increase other arrangements would be necessary. 23. New equipment was received during the year from local and overseas sources. Twelve desks and chairs to match, of the latest model from the Technical Centre; three cupboards from the Public Works Department; a bandaging model from United Kingdom plus a number of charts and text«-books. It is now possible to present a text-book in each subject to incoming students which is a step forward and a great help to Students and Tutor alike. Many of the present textbooks however are out of date and ii? is hoped during the coming year to have then replaced by more recent editions. 24. There were 40 student nurses in training during the year. They were at various stages of training and all of them took at least one examination and some two with the result that 44 candidates were presented for examination as follows Final Examination in General Nursing 5 presented 5 passed Prelim Part II » it 10 11 10 II Prelim Part I h 14 11 13 tl P.T.S. t* 11 .» 15 *1 14 II