INDIAN GIRL TO STUDY THE PLUNKET SYSTEM
Sister Leila C. Ram-Samuj, A.T.N.A., R.y.C.N., S.R.N., oue of the few highcaste Indian girls to take up nursing as a career, arrived in Wellington by the Arawa. She is a Brahmin and wears the caste mark between her brows. During the war Sister RamSamuj served with the Indian Militaiy Nursing Service. She has had a distinguished nursing career, and' has come to New Zealand, her own idea, to take a four monthh' course in Plunket training at the Truby King-Harris Hospitai in Dunedin. She considers that after that, she will be the only Indian nurse to hold a triple certilicate, for general, midwifery and Plunket nursing.' In an interview she said: "If given the ehance Imjian women would be the backbone of our country. It is only by educating the women on the lines of healthy living and the correct feeding of their children that we can have a strong and great India. That is why I want to learn about New Zealand 's famed methods for infant welfare, for I hope to return to India and give to the women and children there what help I can." *
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 April 1946, Page 6
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