To Louisiana State university goes a federal grant of almost $2.1 million which is to set up and operate for five years a center of medical training and research in Middle America.
Under the wing of the LSU medical school, the medical program will be divided between the University of Costa Rica, at San Jose, and the school at New Orleans.
No newcomer on the Costa Ri-can scene, LSU helped lay the groundwork for the University of Costa Rica's new medical school which opened this year. The research and training center made possible by the new grant begins the first of next month.
Tulane university, an earlier recipient of a grant for a similar international center, is sponsor of a project at Cali, Colombia.
Hemispheric health needs are unquestioned; there are shortages of doctors, research and interchange of information. With improvement of communication has come realization that one country's health problems are also those of all the rest.
Our co-operation with sister republics in this field provides perhaps the best basis of all for development of a spirit of mutuality.
New Orleans, of course, will not lose sight of the fact that of five US sponsors of international centers two are hometown institutions located on Tulane ave.
Each has demonstrated competence, says the public health service, and the city nods in agreement and appreciation.
