REFUGEE DOCTORS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 6

REFUGEE DOCTORS

Statement By Minister Dominion Special Service. CHRISTCHURCH. January 26. No refugee doctors, except a few for whom permits bad Iteen previously issued, had been admitted to the Dominion since lite outbreak of war. Applicants who had applied for admission to the Medical School had been in the country for some time. The Government's policy was that no enemy aliens were to be allowed into the couuiry during the war. These statements were made by the Minister of Health, Mr. Nordmeyer, replying to discussions at the University Senate session on the Medical Cottncil’s opposition to further refugee doctors being allowed to take the course.

The statement, by Dr. W. Newlands that, "some of the incomes earned by refugees in New Zealand al: present were astonishing.” was referred to Mr. Nordmeyer. "Dr. Newlands does not spesitically refer to doctors, but. if he did so, the only comment I would care to make is that some doctors other than refugees are also paying considerable taxes,'' replied Mr. Nordmeyer.

He said that refugee doctors who had graduated ,again from the Medical School had been very useful, through the shortage of medical men. Some of them had settled down in communities which had not previously been able to secure the services of doctors.