Health as a first priority | IMGpapers 1980

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training of 1978; SINCE coming to power in Government of National Reconstruction (GRN) has implemented a radical programme of Health care The new Ministry of Health has: • Vaccinated two thirds of the entire population against polio, tetanus, diptheria, measles and other illnesses; * Fumigated some 24,548 houses against the everpresent danger of malaria; * Despatched 25 medical brigades to attend to sugar cane and coffee plantation workers; * Created a special education programme of nine courses for auxiliaries in nursing, examinations, anaesthesia and basic sanitation; * Installed 4,200 new latrines, twice the number for the whole * Made free all medical prescriptions;

Moreover, plans are already underway to reconstruct the hospitals destroyed by Somoza during the civil war. Work has also begun on the building of a National Childrens' Hospital and five clinics, with plans to build a further 150 clinics in the near future.

July last year, the laboratory cost S 5,141,986 18,100 2,800 3,218 54,000 4,860 6,800 36,900 783,000 20,0 pamphlet Past, Present and Future:

aim of issuing an urgent national appeal for