Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate.

  • Zanzibar. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    35. The second lot of students in training under the World Health Organization Health Tutor took their final examination during the year. Of the fourteen students in this class, one left the course, and of the remaining thirteen, twelve satisfied the examiners in June. The remaining student was referred and will be re-examined. 36. As a result of the two courses completed, there are now sixteen Rural Health Assistants operating in the field. Fourteen are posted at twelve of the twenty-two Rural Health Centres, and the other two at Urban Dispensaries. The remaining thirteen students, comprising eight from the first course and five from the second, were chosen to go on to the new course for Health Inspectors begun in October; of these one has fallen out. Originally it was intended that these twelve student Health Inspectors were to train for a local Zanzibar qualification only, but during the year it was decided that students would be allowed to make their own arrangements to take the East African Examination of The Royal Society of Health if they wished. There is some difficulty in training the students due to the lack of facilities for practical demonstration of the theoretical training, but arrangements have been made with the Tanganyika and Kenya Govern¬ ments for the students to visit Dar-es-Salaam and Nairobi for short periods during 1961. 37. The training of Midwives at the Hassanali Karimjee Jivanjee Hospital, Zanzibar, was discontinued pending the return of Miss Neillis who went to the United Kingdom to attend a Sister Tutors Course in Midwifery. It is hoped that the new class in 1961 will produce sufficient Midwives to help fill the existing vacancies in the Department. 38. Unfortunately the training project for District Midwives has made no further progress, but it is hoped that by 1962 the World Health Organi¬ zation will be in a position to provide a Sister Tutor to train girls for this work in the rural areas.