SOCIOLOGICAL - PUBLIC HEALTH

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220939-6
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 939
• Publication Date: May 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION
U&T
CENT INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Sociological - Public
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 13 Apr 1949
LANGUAGE Russian
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SOURCE lfeditelnekis Rabotnik, No 15, 1949
DATE DIST. ,,May 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT. TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
In rebruary, a special commission appointed by the Deputy Minister of
Public Health USE, M. S. Kovrigina, conducted a survey to determine the
public health situation in Azerbaydzhan HER. The survey covered the Minis-
try of Public Health Azerbaydzhan HER, ten scientific research institutions
and medical schools, and more than 200 therapeutic-prophylactic and sani-
taticn-epidemiological enterprises in Baku and 13 rayons of the Republic.
Several days were spent listening to reports of S. Ya. Farndzheva,
Minister of Public Health Azerbaydzhan HER, and other personnel of the
Administration.
In 1943, the Ministry of Public Health with the assistance of the Cen-
tral Committee of the Party and the Counoil of Ministers of Azerbaydzhan
improved the medical service available to the population and succeeded in
decreasing the number of general patients and occupational disease cases
among oil field workers. Recurrent typhus woo coapletely wiped ou.., hi3~
malaria eases were out by about 45 percent. rorty-five municipal hospitals
have tmited with 60 dispensaries and polyclinics, thus improving the medical
service. The organization of municipal end rayon departments of public
health has been Improved. All have competent dastors on their staffs.
In spite of the general over-all improvement of the medical service,
there are still some very noticeable defects. Poo: distribution of hospital
beds is the cause 97 inefficient functions. The mortality rate is high In a
great many diseases, such as acute pneumonia and diphtheria. Pathologico-
anatomic eervice _s poor, except in Baku. Implementation of a recent decree
of the Ministry of Public Health USSR for the reorganization of publi, health
services in rural communities is progressing slowly. In many areas general
practitioners are doing specialized ?ark, and frequently the people have no
apec'.sliet's aid.
The comniseion found that medical personnel were not being assigned
propyrly, moreover, their training was unsatisfactory. Medical schools
and eci?ntific research inetitntes did not cooperate wit;1 the Ministry of
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Public Health in solving various important proolems. The ^o-called lc:stitu
tionefor the advancement of doctors frequently did not familiarize their
Students with contemporary Soviet medical achievements.
The ocsmiasion recommended that the Ministry of Public Health for the
Republic be completely reorganized. Particular attention is to be given
to increasing Ministerial control over its branch offices. The Ministry
of Public Health for the Republic in cooperation with Party and professional
union organizations is charged with the duty of improving. the ideological-
political training of medical workers. There must also be a reorganization
of the operation of medical schools and scientific research institutes with
a view toward fulfilling the practical needs of the Public Health Service.
The cosmaiasion suggested that unification cf hospitals and polyclinics
by completed by 1 June 1949. It set 1 September 1.949 as the date by which
reyon'hgepitals were to be reorganized. In accordance with Decree No 396,
child welfare is to be improved. Special efforts must be made in August
1949 to eliminate parasitic typhus and to decrease greatly intestinal
diseases, and malarial incidences.
Deputy Minister 8ovriglna urged that the conimissian'c recommendations
be opleted by the fourth quarter of 1949.
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