Chapter XLIII
HEALTH PROGRAMS
Training of Native Health Personnel
Training of health aides, dental aides and nurses aides for service
in the public health program was conducted at the various civil administration dispensaries and was one of the most important functions
of the senior medicalofficers. The plan of the administration.to place
trained health aides’ in the civil administration dispensaries, on all
islands and in all villages,’ necessitated instruction of a considerable
number of natives and refresher training for those trained by the
Japanese in prewardays.
Health aides were selected by the medical officers in conjunction with
the indigenous chiefs and sent to the dispensaries at district headquarters for nine to twelve months’ residence where they learned the
techniques of first aid, simple laboratory work, dispensary medicine
and sanitation. Before the end of the period of naval administration.
all aides had received basic training and some had returned to the
dispensaries for additional instruction. The success of the training
program depended upon the teaching ability of the doctors. the time
they could devoteto the task, and the supplies and equipment available.
Numbersof health aides, trained and in-training, at the close of each
fiscal year were:
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The term te “health aides”
as used hereafter
denotes also dental aides
and nurses aides unless
otherwise specified,
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