MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS OF UNEVALUATED INFORMATION

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01162401
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: March 9, 2023
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2020
• Case Number: F-2020-00284
• Publication Date: June 13, 1951

Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE INTELLIGENCE ABSTRACTS
OF
UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CIA/S/ 25013-51
13 June 1951
WARNINGs This document contains �information affect-
ing the national defense of the United States', within
the meaning of Title 18,, Sections 793 and 794, of the
U. S. Code, as amended. Its transmission or revulation
of its contents to oi receipt by an unauthorized person
is prohibited by law.
IS.F1-9..R.933u0P�
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
1. Medical Facilities Inadeqnate in Southeast China.
Between 7-19 March about 7,000 wounded troops
from units of the 3 Field Army in Korea, recup-
erating in. Manchuria, were taken to NanWing and
Chienou. Since field hospitals of the 10 Amy
Group were not adequate to care for the men, private residences
have been requisitioned. The Communist GOve'nmentI of Fukien has
recruited 57 physicians from government and private hospitals in
Foochow to care for them.
6 Reorganization of Medical Supply. and Personnel Facilities to
*de
%et Requirement.
ass:Imp 0
supply facilities of the Chinese Communist
Volunteer Army,' have proven inadequate to meet
the shipment of food and munitions to Korea and
to provide medical care for the sick and wounded.
expand its supply facilities.
-Dtrbies
are�(among others) to conscript medical per-
sonnel and to provide adequate hospital aecommodations. Volun-
teer medical personnel for Korea will be assigned to units of
the "Volunteer Army* Because in-
adequate medical facilities have lowered troop morale, officials
have decided to carry out the followings
a. To encourage residents of Manchuria in organizing
stretcher-bearing units, and to require each hsien
to recruit from 1,000 to 2,000 stretcher-bearers
monthly.
To order the SUpply and Service Command to reorganize
stretcher-bearing units in order that each combat
unit at the front will be assigned tram five to nine
stretcher-bearing squads per regiment.
To give dependents of stretcher-bearers mho continue
in their work the SaMe privileges accorded to depen-
dents of armed forces personnel,
3. Medical Persionnel Conscripted for Korean au�1,E.
DoOtorland-nUrsee-donscripted in KWangtung
area for Korean duty.
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
wirolunteern Military Service Prerequisite for Civil Practice
Licensure.
By mid-March, approximately 300 Shanghai med-
ical doctors entered military service in
Korea under the� following Chinese Communist
pressures� To retain a civilian license the
doctor is required to assume a progressive attit4de and actively
support the Chinese Communist propaganda efforts. Men the doc-
tor is selected for, military serviee ai a nvalunteerft, which
appears plausible in view of the*foregaing activities. His
license is suspended for six:months while he is in active mili-
tary service, after which time it is renewable.
6. Chinese Doctors
(Female) Recruited for Service in Mukden.
In early May ten women xedical doctors were
recruited in the Shanghai, Nanking, and
Hangchaw areas by the East China Military Area
Command. On 15 May these persons were sent
by train to Mukden to care for wounded troops.
Medical Team leaves China for Tibet,
ea*p o=oaoimgoaose Ma* Cxe.e...i*smol
EBISli:TAILY REPORT
Far East., No. 113.
5 June 51
medical team, composed Of 14 doctors and
nurses, left Chungking last week for service
In Tibet.
- 2 -
SECRET
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
SNCRET
, .
9. Czech Doctors and Dentists MnstilorkWhere aviAre Told.
(b)(1)
(b)(3)
(Prague) The Czechoslovak� government decreed
today that doctors and dentists must practice
where they are told, and regional national "
committees shall decide where that is to be.
The decrees set out also that medical and -
dental practitioners will work mAinly in iniblic institutions,
in accordance with a law passed last year.
ANALYSTIS COMMENT8 This is the same modus
operandi of the medical and dental professions in the USSR.
10, Wrist of Health Takes Over Polish Red Cross Facilities
aidPisonnel,
PHIS, DAILT REPORT
NO. 21 - 1951 The Ministry of Health has taken over from
25 Jan 51 the Polish Red Cross all first aid stations, -
m6bulance etatione, and-bloo&donation centres,
and all property connected with these. The
employees of the first aid and blooddonation stations of the
(b)(3) Polish Red Cross-have become the employees of the Ministry of
Health. (Warsaw, 24 Jan Si)
11. Acute Shortage of Plysicians.
1. (Zagreb, 1.3,21122., 4 Feb 51). At present
there is an average of 1-physiciai to
- 30492 inhabitants in Yugoslavia, or 1 to
3,364 in Serbia, 2,668 in Croatia, 2,454
in Slovenia, -7�787 in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
5,938 in Macedonia, and 4,890 in Montenegro. Between 1945 and
October, 19500 1,211 medical students graduated from Yugoslav
medical colleges. Of-these, 498 became specialists, -235 became
general practitioners, and-153 joined the Yugoslav Army, as they
had held army scholarships; while the whereabouts of 325 are not
known. (Canted on page 4)*
e,
2RCSIST
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401
SECRET
11. Acute Shortage of Physicians (Contld).
2. Bettkeen 1948-and the end of 1950, 340:0000
persons in me-di:Cal-examinations.-
Of these, 340000 were found to be syphilitic.
ARALYST'S'COMMENT-8- 1. krecent USPHS report on
-Puerto Rico indicated an abate ehortage aith'l physician to 20345
inhabitante. In the US a proportion of 181,000 is considered
reasonable.
2. The high -incidence Of ophilfs in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a
possible reflection of -the Critical ehortage Of physioians and/or
medical facilities in this areal as shown in the first paragraph
above.
12. Foot and Mouth Disease Epizootic.
Epidemic of foot and mouth disease developed in
southern Macedonia in town of-Lazec on Greek
border south of Bitola. Infected zone extends
in triangular area from Rzana northeast-t6-Bitola southeast '
to Bac. Eighty per cent of cattle affectea in Lezec0- Sedielti0
and Kenali. Sheep and swine als6 involved, quarantine zone
has been established around-infected area. Two shipMents Of
vaccine were flawn fraM Denmark; Additibnarshipments to arrive
soon. Eighty veterinarians were sent-frei'other parts of
Yugoslavia to-aisist in contra of disease.
- 4 -
SECRET
Approved for Release: 2020/10/13 CO1162401