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Medicine in the Falkland Islands

Chief Medical Officer, Falkland Islands

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Correspondence to:
Dr Diggle;
RDiggle@kemh.gov.fk

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The Falklands are a British overseas territory just to the east of the southern tip of South America that came to world attention during the 1982 conflict with Argentina. The archipelago comprises two main islands and some 20 other inhabited islands and upwards of 300 smaller ones, covering an area about the size of half of Wales. Most of the population is centred in the capital, Stanley, and in the military base at Mount Pleasant. The total population, civilian and military, is some 5000, with the deep sea fishing fleets adding another 5000 or so. The islands are situated on the same latitude as Oxford, but due to the lack of the Gulf Stream are cooler than southern England—the climate being more akin to Scotland, where a significant proportion of the early settlers originated from.

The medical services are based in Stanley at the King Edward VII Memorial . . . [Full text of this article]