Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government.

  • Sudan. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah. Medical Services.
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[1963]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Two new Registrars had been selected. One of these is Dr. Hassan Sherif, who has tee 1 taken as Parasitology Registrar and will now work in collaboration with the Kala-Azar team of Namru 3 at Malakal. Two B.Sc. Science Students had been taken for the Medical Zoology and endemic diseases department. One is to train as a Malacologist, while the other is now attached to the W.H.O. Malaria team to train as Medical Entomologist. Several B. Sc. Science graduate posts have already been approved for this section of the laboratories. One for animal ecology, to study animals populations, habits, etc. in relation to human disease and to control their numbers. Another graduate is to train as Malacologist to take charge of the work outside the Gezira. Four Science graduates posts for Kala-Azar, Malaria, Onchocerciasis and Trypanosomiasis had been approved. Expansion in the laboratories is being slowly but surely planned. EDUCATION AND ROUTINE ACTIVITIES Now new' technicians trainees joined the laboratories and none finished their three jmars course and became qualified Lab. technicians. Laboratory Technicians Abdel Rahman Abu Gasim returned from U.K. after one year’s training in Laboratory Technology. He was attached to the Lewisham Group of Laboratories. Lab. Technician Mudather Babiker joined the special course in Laboratory technology which was arranged by the University of Beirut and the World Health Organization Regional Office at Alexandria. This course is meant to train tutor technicians. Lab. Technicians Beshir Mohammed Ahmed was sent to Glasgow, Scotland for further training and study in Laboratory technology. 25 laboratory assistants were trained during the year. Six for Medical Corp and the rest civilians including one female for the Ministry of Health. The last of the three Somali Laboratory Assistant trainees left during November, 1962. 20 female students from the Nursing College Khartoum attended a course of lectures and practical classes in Bacteriology, Haematology and Parasitology. The Police Cadets from the Police College Khartoum, were given lectures and practical training on Forensic Medicine. A total of 25 lectures w7ere given. Routine Work A summary of the routine wrork and research carried out during the year is appended to this report-. The total number of examinations wras 49,792 compared to 48,489 in the previous year and 44,920 in 1960/61. The demand for all three vaccines, Smalbpox, Rabies and T.A.B. has increased tremendusly. The dried small-pox vaccine is now produced on a sma]] scale. Anti scorpion serum, on a small scale, was produced last year but it was considered adviseable to wait until fully qualified staff are recruited and trained to do this job. Arrangements are well on the way.