Annual report of the National Association for Supplying Medical Aid by Women to the Women of India.

  • National Association for Supplying Medical Aid by Women to the Women of India
Date:
[1928]
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Credit: Annual report of the National Association for Supplying Medical Aid by Women to the Women of India. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    committees who are not always well fitted to carry on the work, hence it is not conducted on approved lines and tends to become mixed up with the curative side of medicine instead of remaining strictly preventive. It is obvious that women who have served for many years in ordinary hospital and dispensary work are not the best persons to attack health problems, nor are fresh graduates from medical schools and colleges who have received no specific training for health work during their over-crowded undergraduate days. Yet these are the persons, with few exceptions, who are filling the posts which are now advertised. While we are strongly in favour of medical women taking up this work we fee] it is a great pity that those who engage in it should do so without any previous training or experience. Such a proceeding will not lead to satisfactory results or to a spread of the knowledge of preventive ideas among the people. It may be that the Lady Chelmsford League will have to take the initia 1 steps towards securing a course for medical women which would be a definite training for maternity and child welfare work. It is too early yet to say what body should undertake it, but two facts stand out clearly, namely, (1) there is at present no provision for training such workers, and (2) that it is urgently required in the interest of the work