INDIAN MEDICO ON VISIT TO DOMINION
AUCKLAND, Nov. 4. The Indian surgeon, Dr. M. R. Cholkar, Director of the Congress Medi cal Mission to Malaya, has arrived in Auckland from Sydney by air on the latter stages of a tour he has been mak Ing of several countries, studyiug hospi tals and medical facilities. Leaving India last April Dr. Cholkar visited Sium aud spent nearly six weeks in Aus tralia before coming on to New Zealand where he will remain about ten days Dr. Cholkar said lie was director of a mission seut to Malaya by Congress to carry on medical work until the countrv had sufiieiently recovernd from the wai to be able to conduct its own medical services. There was a paucity of doetors and medical supplies in Maia following the war aud the mission functioned foi three mouths after tlie reoecupation Uver 123,000 Malayans were treated ai cenTresT'W^^vvPSciBrset up thfougTTouT the couiitry "d-rid tlie mission had uow re turned tp India. A mcmbcr of tlie Eaculty- of^Medieiji'e !at pSfffgpur Uuiversity, Dr. Cholkar has1 a pi'ivate practice in the samc eitv. He was dcputy leadei of -naiofdi.er/ihedidal' udiSsiomijcnt. by tlie fndian Gov-erninent to-L'hinn. d.U'ring tlu war witli Japau in 1938.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 November 1946, Page 7
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