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17. equipped with better medical facilities where they are given closer attention by more capable medical officers. In every liberated province, district and circle there are several medical centres of one kind or another, staffed by different kinds of medical officer ready to give the best medical assistance they are able to those who need it. However, the lack of adequately trained medical staff, the scarcity of means of buying the minimum equipment necessary for even a modest clinic in the bush, plus the difficulties we constantly face in trying to find moderately priced drugs and medicines for supplying these centres limits even more our capacity to give the medical services v/hich must be rendered to the hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans living in liberated and semi- liberated areas. Here we must express our deep appreciation to the government and people of Tanzania for the understanding they have shown and the co-operation they have given to those whose responsibility in FRELIMO is"to try and find a quick and adequate if temporary solution to these problems. In this connexion, it is necessary to call the attention of the distinguished delegates to the fact that in your last two sessions here in Dar es Salaam you showed so much sympathy and understanding towards our problems that you passed resolutions urging the United Nations as a body and the member states to do everything they can to give assistance to those programmes which are aimed at helping those who are in need within as well as without Mozambique. These expressions of sympathy and resolutions gave us great hopes and expectations that the people of the world really cared for our plight and that, sooner or later, we would receive some concrete.results of your concern. So far the only really concrete material support v/e have seen has accrued to those Mozambicans who v/ere forced tO floe 1\j UjC aoi^lilruuxin^ Afi i oo?i oiexb^ij bLt) refugees. Since most Mozambicans are averse to bo<-<>min/y refugees, if your policy of giving material aid only to refugees and not to those v/ho choose to stay in their country does not change, the population within Mozambique will suffer for a long time. There have of course been a f w exceptions to this rule, and a number of socialist states in Asia and Europe have taken the resolutions passed here very
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Full text | 17. equipped with better medical facilities where they are given closer attention by more capable medical officers. In every liberated province, district and circle there are several medical centres of one kind or another, staffed by different kinds of medical officer ready to give the best medical assistance they are able to those who need it. However, the lack of adequately trained medical staff, the scarcity of means of buying the minimum equipment necessary for even a modest clinic in the bush, plus the difficulties we constantly face in trying to find moderately priced drugs and medicines for supplying these centres limits even more our capacity to give the medical services v/hich must be rendered to the hundreds of thousands of Mozambicans living in liberated and semi- liberated areas. Here we must express our deep appreciation to the government and people of Tanzania for the understanding they have shown and the co-operation they have given to those whose responsibility in FRELIMO is"to try and find a quick and adequate if temporary solution to these problems. In this connexion, it is necessary to call the attention of the distinguished delegates to the fact that in your last two sessions here in Dar es Salaam you showed so much sympathy and understanding towards our problems that you passed resolutions urging the United Nations as a body and the member states to do everything they can to give assistance to those programmes which are aimed at helping those who are in need within as well as without Mozambique. These expressions of sympathy and resolutions gave us great hopes and expectations that the people of the world really cared for our plight and that, sooner or later, we would receive some concrete.results of your concern. So far the only really concrete material support v/e have seen has accrued to those Mozambicans who v/ere forced tO floe 1\j UjC aoi^lilruuxin^ Afi i oo?i oiexb^ij bLt) refugees. Since most Mozambicans are averse to bo<-<>min/y refugees, if your policy of giving material aid only to refugees and not to those v/ho choose to stay in their country does not change, the population within Mozambique will suffer for a long time. There have of course been a f w exceptions to this rule, and a number of socialist states in Asia and Europe have taken the resolutions passed here very |
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