DEVELOPMENTS IN POLISH PUBLIC HEALTH AND INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE

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• Publication Date: March 19, 1951
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CENTREL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Scientific - Medical
Sociological - Public health
HOW DATE DIST. /I Mar 1951
PUBLISHED Daily, weekly, irregular newspapers; weekly
periodical
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PUBLISHED Poland, Germany NO. OF PAGES 4
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PUBLISHED 6 Mar - 9 Oct 1950
LANGUAGE Polish
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DEVELOPMENTS IN POLISH PUBLIC HEALTH AND INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE
HEALTH SERVICE ORGANIZATION CHANGED -- Poznan, Glos Wielkopolski, 8 Oct 50
Recently, two laws were passed which radically changed the present health
service organization. One law pertains to public health institutions and to
planned economy in health service. The other law, dated 22 July 1950, covers
the establishment of the Institute of Occupational Medicine. As a result of
this latter law, the present Social Security Agencies will be replaced by
the Institute of Occupational Medicine and the Institute for Social Security.
The Institute for Social Security will now limit its functions exclusively
to matters dealing with social security. It will make cash payments, such as
allowances, annuities, and family relief, due to sickness, accidents, and
disabilities. It will also pro-rate and collect insurance payments. The
Institute of Occupational Medicine will have jurisdiction over all medical
agencies heretofore under the Social Security Agencies and industrial medicine
heretofore under various central industrial authorities. All the above public
health services will be under the Ministry of Health.
The gradual transfer of doctors from private practice to public health
centers will contribute to the fusion of preventive medicine with medical
treatments.
Regional subdivisions of the Institute of Occupational Medicine will
conform to the new administrative division of the country. Health problems
willthus be entrusted directly to people's councils within the area.
uthorized agents of the Ministry of Health have been appointed for all
jewodztwos and powiats of Poland to work with the Commission of Four
t on matters of the Institute of Occupational Medicine. The commission
is composed of the official doctor, representatives of wojewodztwo or trade
aiation.councils, and representatives of wojewodztwo or powiat people's coun-
cils.. Henceforth, the people's councils will have full supervision over the
Institute of Occupational Medicine.
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The Ludwik Warynski Sleek Academy of Medicine in Rokitnica now in its
third academic year, rill be fully developed by '55, according to Dr?Nowakow-
ski, dean of the academy. It is, one of the ten medical academies which are to
reinforce the depleted ranks of physicians and stomatologists.
In 1948, total registration was 225. In 1949, there were 378 new students,
and in 1950, 500 new students. At present, there are 679 students in the De-
partment of Medicine and 424 in the Department of Stomatology. The first class
of stomatologists will graduate in 1952, and the first class of physicians in
1953.
By 1955, the academy will accommodate 1,500 students in the Department
of Medicine and 800 in the Department of Stomatology. In 1950, the registra-
tion amounted to 500, or 222 percent of the 1948 registration; the expected
registration of 1,500 In 1955 will be 300 percent of the 1948 registration.
At present, there are 1,083 students in both departments, of whom 62
percent, or 669, come from workers' families and the remainder from the homes
of salaried workers. Almost all of the first and second-year students belong
to the Association of Polish Students..
Since its organization, the academy has tried to participate in the solu-
tion of the health problems of Slask, the most densely populated industrial
area, through the hospitals and institutes of the Academy's Institute of
Industrial Medicine.
The organization of the Slask Central Institute of Industrial Medicine
was started in 1949 with the approval of the Minister of Health. All. active
laboratories of the academy joined in the work. The clinical department is
based on the center for scientific research in industrial diseases organized
by Doctor Zahorski. In the near future, this center will be developed into
the polyclinic of industrial diseases, including silicosis. The Institute
of Industrial Medicine will gather information in medicine and related sub-
jects to improve the health of the Sleek industrial population.
The preparatory work of the Medical Science Section of the First Polish
Scientific Congress showed that the most important and pressing problem, is
the training of new scientific personnel. At present, the academy has 10
professors, 5 substitute professors, 4 research directors, 4 lecturers,
17 associates, 101 assistants, and 52 laboratory technicians. There are
31 students among the younger assistants, and 33 students are working as
laboratory assistants.
There are social clubs in the various departments to interest the stu-
dents in scientific work. An increased effort must be made to make scientific
study available to greater numbers from the working class.
The academies differs from other institutes of higher learning in that it
gives medical care in addition to its work in the teaching and research
fields. In the preparation of clinics and research laboratories for use in
the third year study in medicine and stomatology, the academy has taken over
the Social Insurance Hospital in Zabrze. The Tuberculosis Hospital in
Biskupice is being activated, and the Municipal Hospital in Zabrze will also
be taken over by the academy. The academy will thus take over the hospital
care of the entire population of Zabrze and environs, and through its mobile
units will increase its participation in outside work with the close coopera-
tion of the Institute of Industrial Medicine.
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After repairs and other necessary changes are made in the three hospitals
mentioned, the number of hospital beds will be increased to 730. There will
be 810 beds in new buildings. By 1955, the hospital group of the academy
will have more than 1,500 beds. One of the largest stomatology groups in
Poland will be activated in Zabrze this year.
Cooperation between hospital units and academic institutes will insure
the best medical training. The services of the academy professors as
wojewodztwo consultants will improve medical care for the working cl-as of
the industrial region.
The Polish Health Spas are at present engaged in searching for new mineral
springs, and in the systematic testing of present springs for the purpose of
permanently controlling their yield and activity.
Two new springs are now being drilled: the Zuber III in Krynica, and a
hot spring in Clrchocinek.
Modern saltworks for the production of iodized salt are being built in
Zablocie, Gorny Slask, and in Iwonicz.
The scientific work connected with these springs is being carried out
by a special scientific and research institute in Szczawno-Zdroj. The
institute organized a group of specialists who completed research this
year on the springs in Szczawnica, Iwonicz, Kudowa, and Swieradow. At
present research is being conducted on springs in the Sub-Carpathian Moun-
tains, Dolny Slask, and Pomorze Zachodnie.
URGES USE OF PLACENTAL BLOOD FOR TRANSFUSIONS -- Warsaw, Polski Tygodnik
Lekarski, 6 Mar 50
Scientific and practical considerations make it imperative to conserve
placental blood for use in blood transfusions. Utilization of placental
blood would make hospitals, especially provincial hospitals, more self-
sufficient, and would permit a more extensive use of blood transfusions.
It is estimated that 60 millimeters of blood are secured from one
birth. Based on the figures of the 1949 census of legal births in lying-in
homes and hospitals in Poland, about 7,000 liters of placental blood could
be secured annually, sufficient for 30,000 transfusions.
This objective would be difficult to achieve in a short time. However,
in large hospitals, located conveniently to transportation, 3,500 liters
of blood could be secured each year by training the personnel in the taking
and preserving of placental blood. This blood would supply about 15,000
transfusions a year, about one fifth of the total demand for blood in surgi-
cal cases. -- Ryszard Fidelski
672 REGISTERED BLOOD DONORS IN WARSAW -- Warsaw, Stolica, 11 Jun 50
The Polish Red Cross DonorsI Center in Warsaw, headed by Dr Seraf in, was
opened in 1948. At present it has 672 registered donors, but requires
approximately 2,000.
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Blood is collected in glass ampules and treated with a stabilizer which
preserves all the properties of the fresh blood for almost 6 weeks. Ampules
are stored in refrigerators at 2 to 6 degrees centigrade.
Blood donors must be between 18 and 40 years of age,. Each donor is given
a Wasserman test, medical examination, and a lung X-ray.
The center on Katowicka Street has eight rooms, but thin is insufficient
to accommodate donors properly.
ORDER COVERING EXAMINATIONS FOR VENEREAL DISEASES -- Warsaw, Dziennik Ustaw,
31 Jul 50
In an effort to help overcome venereal diseases, the Minister of Health
has issued the following order:
1. Pregnant women must undergo two examinations for venereal diseases:
one before the 5th month of pregnancy, and the second before the 8th month.
2. The Wojewodztwo People's Council may order the following to undergo
examinations for venereal diseases: (a) office employees, laborers, and
students in schools; and (b) all persons or certain age groups in locations
where the incidence of venereal disease is rising.
3. Examinatons of women during pregnancy are to be conducted by health
centers or other social health services.
4. The Presidium of the Wojewodztwo People's Council establishes the
time and place of the examination of persons named in 2,a, above, in agree-
ment with the management of the concern or school.
Upon ordering an examination of persons named in 2,b, above, the
Presidium of the Wojewodztwo People's Council specifies and announces the
age of persons to undergo such an examination, areas, and time and place of
examinations.
5. A person may be exempted from the examination upon presentation of
a doctor's certificate, dated no later than a month before the announced
examination, stating that such an examination has already been made.
6. Each person examined will receive a certificate to that effect.
7. The costs connected with the examinations and the issuance of certifi-
cates will be borne by the Polish government.
8. The above order becomes effective 31 July 1950-
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