RED CROSS TO SET UP MORE BLOOD CLINICS; POLAND GETS NEW MOBILE DENTAL UNITS

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• Sequence Number: 494
• Publication Date: June 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Medical - Health facilities
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED Warsaw; Poznan; Krakow
DATE
PUBLISHED 2 Mar - 2 Apr 1950
LANGUAGE Polish
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PLANS 16 NEW STATIONS -- Trybuna Ludu, No 61, 2 Mar 50
prior to 1939, blood transfusions were available only to those who could
afford to pay for them. Since the war, the Ministry of Health has entrusted
the polish Red Cross with the organization of a blood donors, drive, reserving
for itself the right of inspection and general supervision. The Ministry of
Health also has introduced free blood transfusions, assuming the burden of re-
muneration to blood donors.
The Main Administration of the Polish Red Cross in the course of a few
years established 15 stations for collecting blood and for transfusions in all
of the 14 vojewodztwo capitals and in Czestochowa. Eleven centers are already
active, and four others in Olsztyn, Rzeszow, Kielce, and Czestochowa are in
the final stages of organization. The centers conduct campaigns for blood
dopations. As a result of this action, an ever-increasing number of blood do-
nok'rsgister at the centers.
The'Main Administration of the Polish Red Cross has worked out a 6-year
plan whereby 16 additional stations in the larger powiat cities will collect
blood.
By the end of 1949, 6,400 blood donors were registered in all of the sta-
tions, and the amount of blood used in 1949 totaled around 5,250 liters. It
is expected that in 1955 there will be over 17,000 blood donors, and the amount
of blood used will be over 20,000 liters.
NEED MORE BLOOD-DONOR CENTERS -- Glos Wielkopolski,,No 90, 1 Apr 50
The one blood-dopoi4enter in?Poznan is insufficient to serve the-various
centers and hospitals scattered tp7Oug4out the entire wojewodztwo. Therefore,
nine smaller centers to provide blood donors for transfusions are planned for
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RED CROSS TO SET UP MORE BLOOD CLINICS;
POLAND GETS NEW MOBILE D3NTAL UNITS
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Poznan Wojewodztwo, to be located in Gorzow, Zielona Gora, Kalisz, Ostrow Wiel-
kopolaki, Pila, Gniezno, and Konin. The Polish Red Cross, which recruits blood
donors, will "provide equipment and personnel.
In December 1949, a small center was established in Zielona Gora, and in
February a center was opened in Ostrow. However, Gorzow, Gniezno, and Kalisz
have done nothing. Not a single doctor or organizer has been found in any of
these areas who is sincerely interested in the cause.
Poland has received four new den'el ambulances from Czechoslovakia. Poz-
nan Wojewodztwo, Szczecin, Sj,ask-Dabrowa, and Warsaw will each receive one.
The new ambulances will operate in electrified areas exclusively, since they
will not have their own electrical systems until July. The ambulances are
equipped with modern dental equipment and can carry a staff of five dentists,
two nurses, and a chauffeur. Each of the dental units has one stationary arm-
chair and four portable chairs which are taken to the nearest building, usually
a school, where the unit remains until a dental examination of all the children
is made.
There are 15 dental ambulances in operation at present. Two of these have
been operating in Slask-Dabrowa Wojewodztwo. Each of the remaining 13 wojewodz-
two has one dental unit in operation. The staff off each mobile dental unit
now in operation includes a dentist, a nurse, and a chauffeur.
The number of mobile dental ambulances will be increased to 40 during 1950.
A new hospital for obstetrics and gynecology will be opened in Warsaw with-
in the next 2 months. The hospital, to be located on Ulica Karova 10, will con-
tain 200 beds. The building, used by a military unit since 1945, has finally
been turned over to the Ministry of Health. It will be completely remodeled
into one of the best-equipped hospitals of this type in Poland. The Office of
Public Health will soon assign a medical unit to the new hospital.
At present, the local Department of Health has at its disposal in four hos-
pitals 195 beds in obstetric wards and 262 beds in gynecological wards, or a
total of 457 beds. The 200 beds in the new hospital will increase existing fac-
ilities in this field by nearly 50 percent.
KRAKOW BUYS NEW AMBULANCE PLANE -- Dziennik Polski, No?72, 14 Mar 50
A new ambulance plane has been purchased for Krakow Wojewodztwo with funds
from a drive organized by the Aviation League. The plane has space for the
pilot, a doctor, and two patients. The patients occupy specially built cabins.
Because of special construction, the plane does not require an airfield for land-
ing.
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