Juliet Singh, an 11-year-old girl faced a bleak future. She was suffering from liver damage which put her in danger of internal bleeding attacks.
She returned to Suva by air from America where she had undergone a successful operation for her condition.
This newspaper published an article on her successful return on Saturday June 21, 1969. According to the article she was given an enthusiastic welcome by her friends in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Primary, the children’s auxiliary of the church.
They waved a huge banner “Welcome Home Juliet” and presented her with a bunch of flowers.
Juliet, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael Singh of Toorak, left Fiji on March 19, 1969, for treatment at the Children’s Hospital of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The hospital gives free service to children of all races and creeds and is maintained by money given by children and primary workers of the church.
The 250 doctors treat only those children who they believe can be helped.
After examining Juliet’s medical records, the doctors decided they could help her with an operation. Surgeons removed her spleen and re-routed some blood vessels to give more supply of blood to the liver.
