RECRUIT MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE IN THE KOREAN WAR

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• Publication Date: February 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CQNFIDEN ?JII.
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Sociological; Military
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED 7 Dec 1950 -,4 Jan 1951
LANGUAGE Chinese
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT EO
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HIBITEO ET LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950 - 1951
DATE DIST. p Feb 1951
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
RECRUIT MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS TO SERVE IN THE KOREAN WAR
Since the entrance of the Chinese Communist volunteers into the
Korean War, a drive has been started to recruit medical volunteers
from the major cities in China to help take care of the wounded and
the sick. The recruiting drive is proving highly successful in
Shanghai, Hankow, Wu-han, Nanking, and Tientsin. A total of 158
medical personnel in Shanghai volunteered for medical units; Hankow
formally established a, Central and South China Oppose US, Aid Korea
Action Committee; and two Aid Korea surgical units were organized
in Wu-Han and will leave for Korea on 10 January 1951. Many prom-
inent medical specialists have volunteered.
In Nanking, more than 1,200 medical personnel requested to join
the Nanking Oppose US, Aid Korea Medical Volunteer Corps. Prior to
this, a 160-man medical corps was organized and is now serving on
the Korean front. In addition, students at the Nanking University
Medical College organized blood-bank units to collect blood in prep-
aration for any eventuality. Forty-one medical personnel of the
Nanking University Medical College volunteered for the surgical and
L medical units to serve in Korea.
The First Battalion of the Tientsin Oppose US, Aid Korea Medical
Volunteer Unit is now working on the Korean front. They performed
20 major operations in a 6-day period.
PROMINENT DOCTORS VOLUNTEER FOR KOREA -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao; 7, 8 Dec 50
Shanghai, 6 December (Hsin-hua) -- More than 50 Shanghai doctors and nurses
volunteered for the Shanghai Surgical Volunteer Unit which left for the Korean
war front recently. The unit is led by Li Lan-wing (i) Zn_umbers refer to ap-
pended character.
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Included in the unit are Lu Shu-fan (2), who won the Second-Class Award for
his work on schistosomiasis in an unidentified unit of the PLA; Chang Ming-hsi
(3), a surgeon, who recently returned from the US; and Ts'eng Kuang-shu (4),
chief of the examination section of the Shanghai Public Health Bureau.
MEDICAL BATTALION FORMED -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 16 Dec 50
Shanghai, 16 December -- At a meeting held jointly in Shanghai by the medi-
cal personnel of the Chung-shan Hospital, the Red Cross Society Hospital, and
the Shanghai Medical College, a medical battalion was formed to serve on the Ko-
rean front. More than 108 medical personnel volunteered to join the battalion.
The battalion will be divided into a su geons' squad and physicians' squad.
The medical battalion includes such ?aell-known chest surgery specialists as Huang
Chia-ssu (5), and Chien Te-erh (6).
HANKOW, WU-BAN ORGANIZE MEDICAL UNITS -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 21 Dec 50
Hankow, 20 December -- The medical personnel in the Central and South China
Regional District established an Oppose US, Aid Korea Action Committee in Hankow
and appointed a chairman, four deputy chairmen, and 51 committee members. The
chairman is Yao K'o-fang (7), who is also deputy chief of the Public Health De-
partment of the Central and South China Regional District.
The Wu-han Branch of the Oppose US, Aid Korea Action Committee organized
two Aid Korea surgical units which will go to Korea on 10 January 1951.
LEADING MEDICAL SPECIALISTS VOLUNTEER IN NANKING -- Hong Kong, Ta.Kung Pao,
20 Dec 50
Nanking, 18 December (Hsin-hua) -- More than 1,200 medical personnel in
Nanking applied to join the Nanking Oppose US, Aid Korea Medical Volunteer Corps.
Included among the applicants are the following medical specialists: Tsai
Ch'iao (8), physiologist and president of the Nanking University Medical College;
Chiang Ssu-ch'ang (9), head of the otorhinolaryngology department of the Nanking
University Medical College; Chen Tsu-yin (10), chest surgery specialist and su-
perintendent of the Municipal Ku-lou Hospital in Nanking; Wang San (11), assist-
ant superintendent of the East China Military District Hospital, formerly known
as the Central Hospital; Hsu Tung-ch'ing (12), and Tung Chien (13), superintend-
ent and assistant superintendent respectively of the Municipal Hospital in Nan-
king; Wu Tsai-tung (14), pathologist and chairman of the Nanking Medical Union.
Kuo Chia-ch'iang (15), chairman of the Nanking Students' Federation, was among
the first to apply for the volunteer corps.
Prior to the formation of the above corps, the Nanking Medical, Pharmaceuti-
cal, and Health Committee to Defend World Peace and Oppose US Aggression and the
Nanking Medical Union organized a 160-man medical corps. At present, this corps
is working in Korea. The current recruiting drive resulted in eight times the re-
quired number of applicants. Applicants included many Chinese who returned from
the US and many Christians. Of the thirty-six who applied from the Ku-lou Hos-
pital, one half are Christians. The superintendent of this hospital, Chen Tsu-
yin (10), returned last year from the US.
The students of the Nanking University Medical College also organized blood-
bank units and Committees-to Care for Families Whose Supporters Are at the Front.
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PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS VOLUNTEER -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung rao, 27 Dec 50
Shanghai, 26 December -- A dispatch from NE.nking states that 41 medical
personnel of the Nanking University Medical College volunteered for the surg-
cal and medical units which will serve in Korea.
The volunteers include Yang I (16), supervisor of physicians; Liu Kan-ch'u
(17), chief of the otorhinolaryngology department; Prcfessor Liu Hsiao-ts'eni
(18); Tsai Ch'iao (8), superintendent; doctors Clung Hsueh-yung (19), Li P'ei-
ch'eng (20), Mou Shan-ch'u (21), Chen Hsi-t'ao (22), and Chiang Kuan-ying (23);
17 students, including Kuo Chiao-ch'iang (15), chairman of the Nanking Students
Federation; ten nurses, and four workers,
NANKING ORGANIZES MEDICAL CORPS -- Hong Kong, Wen-hui Pao, 4 Jan 51
Nanking, 3 January (Hsin-hua) -- The medical and health circles in Nanking
formally organized an Oppose US, Aid Korea Medical Volunteer Corps, on 30 Decem-
ber 1950.
The corps is headed by Hsu Tien-i (24), former chief of surgeons at the
Nanking Central Hospital. Chu Ch'ao (25), a standing committee member of the
'Nanking Medical Union, is Hsu's assistant.
Some 1,605 medical personnel applied to join the corps. The, number is ap-
proximately 50 percent of the total medical personnel inRanking. From the ap-
plicants, 262 were accepted.
The corps is organized into six surgical units, five medical units, and an
antiplague unit. Equipped with modern medical instruments and medicine, donated
mostly from the local hospitals, the corps will leave for the Korean front soon
after completing preliminary training.
TIENTSIN MEDICS ARRIVE IN KOREA -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 23 Dec 50
Tientsin, 22 December (Hsin-hua) -- The First Battalion of the Tientsin
Oppose US, Aid Korea Medical Volunteer Unit is now serving on the Korean front.
A few days ago, the Tientsin Jih-pao carried pictures sent by a member of the
battalion. The pictures vividly portray conditions on the front, and the heroic
action of the medical unit in the care of the wounded and the sick. On 18 De-
cember 1950, returnees from the Korean front brought back a letter from the.
medical unit, addressed to the mayor and people of Tientsin.
The letter stated in part that the unit's members have good morale and are
very happy with the job they are doing. During, their spare time, the letter
said, they read magazines and newspapers, discuss current events, and study
medical techniques an& the Russian language. The letter also stated that the
members of the First Battalion performed more than 20 major operations in a 6--...,.
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