"21/5 مستشفى قطر" [و‎‎١‎٤] (٤٨/٢٧)

D.O. No.C/992
1947.
The 3rd of October,
Dear Colonel Galloway,
please refer co the correspondence resting with
one of my predecessors' demi-official letter NO.C/3C3 .
dated the 5th of March, 1947.
2. I enclose a copy in translation of a letter received
from the Shaikh of ^atar.
3. On the 1st October Storm called and asked for per
mission to visit Qatar the next day. As all the arrange
ments for the crip had already been made, and as I knew
that Steele was coo busy to go, I raised no objection.
4. In the course of conversation 3tom told me that
the ohaxkh had sought his advice on the design of a
hospital building and had later asked him what equipment
should be bought. Storm told me that he had assisted
the Shaikh in the design of the building; and had bought
Hs.5,000/- worth of equipment, for *?h.ich the Shaikh had
paid in full. The equipment has arrived and is awaiting
delivery to Qatar in the Mission uospitai here.
5. Storm assured me that the fission had only helped
with advice and as purchasing agents for equipment, and
that they had contributed no money at all to the Shaikh’s
hospital.
6. Storm offered to let me know, ^dien he returned,
exactly how the project was proceeding.
7. While I appreciate the good //ork the fission are
doing and, as we are at present unable to do it ourselves,
/would not wish to discourage them, I feel that giving
advice to the Jhaikh of Qatar on details of his local
administration is properly a political function; and
that we should be sufficiently staffed with doctors to be
able to perform this function with the help of our own
Agency or Residency Surgeon. At the moment the Agency
Surgeon and Quarantine Medical officer is officiating as
Residency Surgeon in addition to his own duties and is
also acting as Chief Medical Officer for the Bahrain
Government. His quarantine work alone, if properly done,
is a full time job; and I feel that we need a separate
Residency Surgeon and that the Bahrain Government should
have sufficient European doctors of their own to be able
to give them the leave due to them without having to call
in anyone from outside whenever their Chief Medical Officer
goes on leave.
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The Eon'ble Lt-Col. A.C. Galloway,
C.I.E., O.B.E.,
political Resident in the Persian Gulf,
Bahrain.
yours sincerely,