STATUS OF MEDICAL PROFESSION, MEDICAL PRACTICE, AND MEDICAL TRAINING/HOSPITALS IN MINAHASA AREA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 17, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT 6t:a,tu or Me i, aal prof e Sion
Md.al TraIning a Medical Pral t 3, e s and
/ o8pita, ,a In M ,na1, .?qaa Area
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1. The total nu . ar In I:axa f7neeta as of the e1L m r of 1954 v so ebo'ut
y 97. Of there aabrsut 1,50 ^ aa:re . Dut h,~ 1,55 were Qermany and. the rest:; 'a * re
I~`nd,oneei,aene. Of the ndo a iane , About 500 ver?e Chinese a .d the
'#00 or so ware r*al 1D;'a.oneaii,ane.
Befo ^ee Wo; L,; 'War Xis when the athoolo in Inionereja were rti,l,i aaz, .e: 1 uxt,''xh
D t t i,on,l,...taf a were two zed.izal air,*hi olm whi.nh we utte
,~ good- oars in
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, Out in goer'aacha ja. The .zal wing received at the enhoa e, "s gory :! ,eared,
good 9 axsd,. 4Izring -that, ti mush valuable work wedF,~ done `b;~y?T,,, dootoga 1.nIt,gi.o wyi~a
in the f le Ld, a 'A, med ' ue &MA, Algal dM a earh. many ~1~!,3 p the ~1J~ig plan'*1t stions bal
their own da4,torle and they, provided fine laboraatoarlea In wh,t-oh the a of -tca:l;?a Laoul.d
work. At that tim the 4o ttorae were not as overburdened with word as .they are
now a It vas posejble for them to apend more time on reaearroh. Important work
was done in the d!?l,roove',wy of Vit to B1. as well as in the treatment of malaria
and amoebl,i~ disenoea.
$inl a World, War' II,, however;, everything (parti.aularly in the field of med.ilwine) is
vaazy poor in..Ind.onaesia. d,i~~a;i e4hool.a.
ar?e unable to provide th
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, was ofterod under the Dutch,, and the medical groups are not functioning well. The
journal of the Indonesian medloal. aouietyp which is supposed to be issued every,
25X1 C mon t,h9 is now about 13 months behind. People who are supposedly
writing papers for the journal, are unable to get them in on times and I believe
this i.a largely baeuauae of a la yak of interest. The failure to get the. journal out
on time ja typ!.,a ,l and is I haa.raaatert,etlc4. of the whole mediQal pi tnarre in Indonesia
at present.
14. Foreign doctors who w.ieh to praoti_, e medi ?ne privately in Indonesia are -.required to
put in three'
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taixig #'hr thet bf
,i, governmeneore they an enter pr.i,yate
praotir e. They are assigned, to government poets throughout Ind.anestaa, W' uu ua:: ly in
some remote ra rer
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e poss are u.saaa, ,y 'reserved for
Indoneslaa dootorR (iM lud,ing Chinese who are oit .zena of Indonesia). I was a
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hospital in Noongoan 55c with 100 beds d There is at least one doctor at
each of the hospitals. At the Catholic hospital In Lemri3ing there are 1.2 vh.;ite
nu_rses,, and, at the Catholic hospital in Tomohon there are 19. The protestant
hospital in Tomohon- has one white nurse on the staff. Other hospitals employ
Indonesian nurses, and most of them have had little or no training. Indonesian
nurses who were trained by the Dutch before World, War 11 are very capable .vm in
diagnosis as well as in giving Interveinous 'injections.. 4nd in helping people
generally. But since World War 21 no particular training has been required for
nurses,, and It Is now possible for almost anyone to don a uniform. and work In
a. hospital, as a nurse. Polyclinics? or out-patient clinics, in Minahaea are
run by nu rsers 5resumably trained. nurses rather than by doctors. Child: irth
in this area, is nearly always attended by a midwife rather than, by a phys i,~;:ian,,
and the midwives are -we.l.l, trained and very competent.
6. Some of' the hospitals in the Min. ha,sa region have fairly modern equipwent,, and
others have very little. The tuberculosis hospital in ,Noongoan Is very wel,1,
equipped. There is a fine, X-ray ma(Mhine at this hospital. which was a gift, from
Queen Wi,lh i,na,, but unfortunately the machine has never- been used because there
is no one at the hospital who knows how to run it. The big ospital In. Manado
has an X-ray machine 9 as does -the hospital in LettAinZ. The ?otestaa,nt . ton pita,l.
in Tomohon. has two X-ray machines. Rather than sending X-ray machines and modern
surgical instrument to the people in the Minahasa region, a better gift would be
the loan, of persons who could demonstrate the proper techniques in using su?h
equipments.
7. Quite a number of German doctors have oc e to Indonesia to practise since the
end of World War 11. There Is apparently an oversupply of doctors in the Federal
Republic of Derma Ly,, eopetia:l,l.y since many have come there from the Soviet-Zone,
aao many of them have gone to places,, such as Indonesia,, where there is a serious
shortage of alt- ctors. The Indonesians do not look upon the German do,tors vith
much favor. The Gee .s wbo have come to Indonesia have not known the Indonesian
language, they usually have not known much. about the history of the couna.try,, and,
the Indonesians think it is obvious that they are there only to earn money.
8. Indonesians are not much more favorably inclined to irds US citizens who have
come to their country,, as they believe that they, too, havs- come either to earn
money or to spy on the Indonesians. The Indonesians cannot believe that US
missionaries would come, to their country for the sole purpose of helping the
people. Since the missionaries are obviously not there to earn money,, however,,
the Indonesians usually assume that they must be spies.
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1951, and at that time there were 14 or 15
oc .or,a practicing there. Five of the docta:r were white, six were Chinese
and the rest were Indonesia.
hospital in Tondano with 120 beds; a Ca.thoi c. hospita?. in mb* with
2 0 bed.a; a .ospital, in Kawa,ngkoan with 50 beds; a small hospital in LLDgoan
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Hospitals In the :Lnabasa region include a large general hospital (300 beds)
in 1 nado; a psychiatric hospital, in Manaado with 1,00 beds; a Catho".i,c> hospital
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