Report of the Sudan Medical Service.

  • Sudan. Medical Service.
Date:
[1938]
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Credit: Report of the Sudan Medical Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to three days at the beginning of the pilgrimage season and this was reduced later to one day only. At Port Sudan no ships were quarantined and there were no cases of infectious disease from ships. At Wadi Haifa 1,330 Egyptian labourers passed through the quarantine of whom 81 were treated for bilharziasis either at Wadi Haifa or their destination, and 2 were repatriated as unfit. TRAINING. 27 students were under training at the Kitchener School of Medicine during the year. 8 sat for the intermediate examinations in Anatomy and Pharmacology in May and all passed. Eleven sat for the first professional examination in Chemistry, Physics and Biology, of whom seven were successful. Seven sat for the final examination in Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics and Gynaecology of whom six passed, and one was referred for three months in Medicine. In addition one student referred from last year passed a special final examination held in April. The Medical School is now organised on a five year course and the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges in England have recognised the whole period spent in taking the course as counting towards taking a conjoint qualification, provided an educational standard is reached before entering the school. Two candidates sat for the diploma of the Royal Sanitarv Institute, both of whom were successful. Training classes were held for dispensers, sanitary overseers, female nurses, midwives, laboratory assistants, medical assistants and hospital orderlies. Two Sudanese medical officers completed a three months post-graduate course in London during the year. STACK MEDICAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES. Investigations were carried out on various diseases including kala-azar, relapsing fever and yellow fever during the year. The Medical Entomologist continued his investigations concerning the anopheline mosquitoes of the Gezira and Khartoum districts and concerning sand flies in connection with the kala-azar investigations. The local production of vaccine lymph proved of immense value during the year in dealing with numerous small outbreaks of smallpox throughout the northern Sudan. 1,300,000 units were issued and it was largely due to its high potency, which gave nearly 100% successful “ takes ” in the unvaccinated, that it was possible to control the disease effectively. 22,633 routine examinations were carried out during the year compared with 20,432 in 1937, despite the fact that as much routine work as possible was decentralised to provincial hospital laboratories.