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We are now making some progress to alleviate the problem of the
lack of medical staff. The colonial policy of preventing Africans
from pursueing their studies beyond primary school meant that under
Portuguese rule no Africans were able to qualify as doctors. We
have now, however been able to send a number of Mozambicans to
study medecine in various foreign universities, and in 1968 the
first African Mozambican doctor will qualify.
It is also necessary to prepare para-medical cadres who will be
able to deal with day to day medical problems. Some, trained under
the eortuguese have left their colonial ties to join the liberation
struggle, however we need many more and to prepare these we have
started a course for rural medical aides at the Mozambique Institute, in Dar es Salaam, two groups have now finished their course and
gone back to work in Mozambique. A third group is being trained at
present.There are plans to expand and diversify these courses and
to include programmes on a higher level, but these depend to a large
extent on the possibility of obtaining external aide and recruiting
more teachers.
Apart from this programme at the Mozambique Institute we have
prepared a large number of first-aide officers who can deal with
simple problems and administer first aide to those who are wounded
or injured.This programme is continuing and we are introducing to it
various modifications and improvements.
A constant impediment to the progress of these medical programmes
is the lack of young people who have adequate educational qualifications to be enrolled in the training courses. We have, however, an
expanding educational programme which will gradually supply us with
a flow of suitable recruits.
d) education
When the Portuguese withdrew educational facilities in those areas
affected by the armed struggle, from the point of view of the African population, there was little enough to withdraw: under Portuguese administration Africans are normally excluded altogether
from secondary education; primary education is so scaree that no
more than a 5% literacy rate had been acheived over the whole
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| Full text | We are now making some progress to alleviate the problem of the lack of medical staff. The colonial policy of preventing Africans from pursueing their studies beyond primary school meant that under Portuguese rule no Africans were able to qualify as doctors. We have now, however been able to send a number of Mozambicans to study medecine in various foreign universities, and in 1968 the first African Mozambican doctor will qualify. It is also necessary to prepare para-medical cadres who will be able to deal with day to day medical problems. Some, trained under the eortuguese have left their colonial ties to join the liberation struggle, however we need many more and to prepare these we have started a course for rural medical aides at the Mozambique Institute, in Dar es Salaam, two groups have now finished their course and gone back to work in Mozambique. A third group is being trained at present.There are plans to expand and diversify these courses and to include programmes on a higher level, but these depend to a large extent on the possibility of obtaining external aide and recruiting more teachers. Apart from this programme at the Mozambique Institute we have prepared a large number of first-aide officers who can deal with simple problems and administer first aide to those who are wounded or injured.This programme is continuing and we are introducing to it various modifications and improvements. A constant impediment to the progress of these medical programmes is the lack of young people who have adequate educational qualifications to be enrolled in the training courses. We have, however, an expanding educational programme which will gradually supply us with a flow of suitable recruits. d) education When the Portuguese withdrew educational facilities in those areas affected by the armed struggle, from the point of view of the African population, there was little enough to withdraw: under Portuguese administration Africans are normally excluded altogether from secondary education; primary education is so scaree that no more than a 5% literacy rate had been acheived over the whole 41 |
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