Report of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services / [Ceylon].

  • Ceylon. Civil Medical Department.
Date:
[1947]
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Credit: Report of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services / [Ceylon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would be non-medical men), Laboratory Assistants and minor staff. All depart¬ ments will be in charge of medical specialists with the exception of the Biochemis¬ try, Entomology and Serum Departments, to which non-medical epecialists may be appointed. For appointment as a specialist officer special qualifications of a recognized standard will be required in addition to practical experience in the particular subject. The Medical Assistants will be recruited fron> Medical Officers of the department wrho show a special aptitude for, and interest in, research. Medical Assistants who obtain special qualifications will be placed in a grade of Research Officers. It is from this grade that the Medical Specialists in charge of Departments will be recruited. The grade of Research Assistants will be filled partly by the recruitment of graduates in science and partly by the promotion of Laboratory Assistants who show exceptional promise. The personnel of the Institute when it attains to final development should be as follows: — Bacteriology- Mycology Virus Diseases Parasitology Entomology Nutrition Biochemistry Pharmacology Experimental Pathology Serum Department Specialist Medical Research Laboratory Officers. Assistants. Assistants. Assistants. 1 3 2 8 1 1 .. — 1 1 1 ., — 5 1 ’ 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 .. — 2 1 — 2 2 1 !! i 3 3 1 i .. — 1 1 — 3 3 10 10 12 29 Statistical Section: Statistician and Assistant Statistician. Scientific Modelling Section *. Modeller and Assistant. Photo graphic Section: Technician and Assistant Technician. Workshop: Foreman, Electrical Technician, Carpenter, and Glass Blower. (iv.)—Salaries of Staff: The scales of salaries to be assigned to the various grades of. officers in the Medical Research Institute will receive the attention of the Salaries Committee. 4. It is proposed that the scheme should be put into effect over a period of 10 years, during which period the necessary personnel could be trained. If the proposed scheme of training is followed, the sub-departments could be opened according to the following programme: — 1945- 46 1946- 47 1948-49 1950- 51 1951- 52 1952- 53 1953- 54 1954- 55 Bacteriology and Parasitology. (Specialist Officers for these two departments are already available). Biochemistry. (No difficulty is likely to be experienced in secur¬ ing a Specialist Officer for this Department). Entomology. Nutrition. Virus Diseases. Pharmacology. Experimental Pathology and Serum Work. Mycology, The conversion of the Bacteriological Institute into a Research Institute could commence therefore immediately after the adoption of this resolution with the creation of the posts of the Director of the Medical Research Institute and the two Specialist Officers for the Departments of Bacteriology and Parasitology. Provision has been voted in the 1945-46 Estimates for the staff of the Institute to be strengthened by fhe addition of 2 Medical Officers, 3 Chemists and 6 Laboratory Assistants.