NEW ACHIEVEMENTS IN RURAL PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE UKRAINE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 29, 2011
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: March 2, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENL (.i" REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Medical; Sociological - Public health
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PUBLISHED Bimonthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED dui/pug 1949
LANGUAGE
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST. ~: ar 1950
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NEW ACHIEVEMENTS IN RURAL
PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE UKRAINE
Since the war about 800;000 houses for collective farmers, 200,000 industri-
al buildings, and 27,000 buildings for cultural institutions have been restored
or erected. Over 5,000 kolkhozes have been organized in the western oblasts of
the Ukraine, while Izmail', Chernovits, Bolynsk, and other oblasts were complete-
ly collectivized. The microclimate of many populated areas, especially in the
south, was improved by the construction of thousands of reservoirs and tanks.
The number of public-health institutions, pharmacies, consultation clinics
for women and children, and pharmaceutical centers in villages has been greatly
increased as compared with 1940. Sanitation and epidemiological stations have
been organized in all rayons. Dispensaries have been built or estabilished in
existing hospitals, and specialized medical treatment is being extended to rural
districts, bringing rural health care to the level of that in cities.
Until 1941 over 50 percent of the doctors in the Ukraine were general prac-
titioners and 52 percent of the hospital beds were occupied by genera? cases.
The situation in the western provinces was worse. Poland and Rumania. be-
fore uniting with the Soviet Union, had no doctors or hospita o I. rural
regions. Organization of medical institutions in rural districts, disrupted by
the war, had to start from the very beginning.
The achievements of the Ukrainian Republic in speeding up the development
of rural public-health institutions -- especially in western districts -- were
greatly facilitated by three decrees by Smirnov, Minister of Public Health USSR.
No 201 of 29 May 1947 "On the Improvement of Medical Service for the Rural Popu-
lation," No 360 of 6 September 1948 IT On Training Medical Specialists for Rural
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Rayon Centers" and No 369 of 15 September 1947 "On the Structure and Norma of
Medical and Prophylactic Institutions in Rural Rayon Centers and Basic Staff
of Medical Personnel for Rural District and Rayon Hospital."
The government supplied the funds for training specialists and organized
specialized medical aid in rayon centers; 1,200 doctors took specialized train-
ire in the large hospitals and clinics. Specialized hospital care, which had
improved greatly during the postwar period, made further progress in 1947 1948.
The number of hospital beds in rural district.: is 125 percent greater than
before the war and 102 percent greater in cities.
Statistics on ordinary and infectious diseases showed a decrease in 1948
as compares with 1947. The 14.1-percent increase over 1947 in the number of
hospi,.allzed cases is primarily a reflection of the increase in hospitalization
of those cases requiring it.
Hospitalization of so-called "general bed cases" decreased 27 percent while
those in special departments and wards increased. These figure demonstrate the
improved quality of hospital service and the demand for specii.ized services.
Previously, patients in the country requiring such services were obliged to go
to the nearest city. The return of veterans from well-equipped military hospi-
tals to villages lacking in special facilities emphasized this need.
Many hospitals were organized to receive tubercular patients. As a result
of better care, the morbidity rate in rural districts was lower in 1948 than in
1947; twice as many tubercular cases were hospitalized and a still higher per-
centage of bacillary cases were quarantined and treated.
In 1948, more than 2 million women over 35 were examined for cancer by
midwives under the direction of gynecologists. If symptoms of cancer or other
diseases were detected, the patient was dir