CORSO ON THE JOB

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 94, 3 July 1946, Page 4

CORSO ON THE JOB

REPORT FROM GREECE Four New Zealand CORSO workers, headed by Dr. Sylvia Chapman, {Jnit Leader, recently attended a conference of UNRRA personnel of Western Macedonia, states a report from the Unit recently received at CORSO Headquarters, Wellington. Questions concerning welfare, transport, distribution of food, and the work of mobile teams were discussed, and the meeting provided “a fairly complete summing up of the problems of the region.” “The UNRRA policy of handing of responsibility for the continuance of medical and social services to the local authorities is no doubt an ultimately desirable one, though in Greece it makes for slow progress and many setbacks,” the report states.

“Projects which ,in our country would be working concerns in a few months, take years to organise, and one fears that in many cases, such projects may be in danger of lapsing, after the. withdrawal of UNRRA, for lack of personnel and funds.”

Dr. Chapman herself has been asked to undertake some special work at Salonika. It will consist primarily of advising as to the equipment for maternity hospitals in Salonika and the surrounding centres, and secondarily in supervising the organisation of anti-natal and post-natal clinics. Dr. Alison Hunter of Wanganui, will act as Leader of the First Public Health Team, while Miss Elsie Steven of Wellington, will continue as Nursing Adviser to the Kozani Hospital and will also co-operate with the local health authorities in organising immunisation work in the villages. Miss Iris Lawson is continuing her survey of dental conditions in the villages.