OPENING OF SOVIET RED CROSS HOSPITAL IN PEIPING

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080362-0
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 362
• Publication Date: September 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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On 19 June 1952 a Soviet Red Cross Hoepltal staffed xith Soviet medical
personnel and equipped xith Soviet medical equip3ent was officially opened in
Poipiog. The opening of the ,new hospital is au important event in Sioo-Soviet
cultural relations. The inaugural ceremorRy was attended by some 2W prominent
persona, iacl?~ing P'cng Chen, Li Te-ch'uan, P'eng Tse-min, Chen Ch'i-yuua,
end Amt~nsssdor Raschin. Prochoro All Russian names are Chinese approrinvation
of 8oviit name, superintendent of the new hospital, stated at the ceremogy
that ha .gas bean entruste3 by the Soviet people with introducing Soviet medi-
cesl espe~ fences to the Chinese p,:ople through this hospital.
The hospital is divided into outpatieni sad inpgtient xards and has the
folloxing departments: internal medicine, e?.irgery, rerebral neurology, eye
diseases, dentistiy,ophthe?lmology, dermatology and venereal diseases, obste-
trics and gynecology, physical therapy, and pulmonary tuberculosis. The equip-
ment oP the hospital includes: deep therapy, X-ray machine, fad?rect X-ray
photo machine, and blood-vessel suturing apparatus.(1)
The present temporary hospital building, located at Kan-shut Chieh, has
80 beds. It will be opened for outp?tieats on 23 June and for inpatients on
2~ June. It x111 treat 20G outpatleats daily. When facilities are expanded,
it viii be able to handle 3oG outpatleate. Meanwhile, the construction of a
near 20J-bed hospital is baing planned. For the time being, the inpa'cient
Hard viii not take in chronic cases, patieuts with infectious diseases, chil-
dren helm! 13 years of age, and expectant mothers.(2)
Becauoe of limited space, patients applying for hospitalization in the
i~atient card must present a letter of recoamendation from a designated health
agency. Civilian applicants must be recor~ended by the Peiping Publia Health
y :tau, while Central People's govercment employees and military personnel
mast be recosm4ended by a designated health agency of the government and of
the military, respectively.(1, 2)
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Tho dep~,tity supvriatcnde'uts of the hospital are: Vasiliy Iailynnov Sh~cv,
L1?Husa-ehtisa, and 2'c~i C'neng-ch'i. Zn addition t~, tr.,~ ~ ,....+ntY~~ -
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__, o ~RCiacandents, thee ;tire m total oP 35 Soviet specimlist-phyai.cians,
bssd muses, m1rR2B, gbars~riats, labormtory chiefs, %-rey tcchnicinna, ztc.
UtLeTS are Chinese doctors, rauraes, +~nd administratire caiire, etc. T3z;? ho;,-
p$tar7. is directed by the Peiping Soviet Red Cross soepitsl Control Co~nittee,
e~'aich is composed oi' rae Soviet and one Chinese auperin?r_ndent oY the ho,pi-
tciL, mnd repr~sentctives Preen the i'eatioa-ai. Red Cross Scciety of Chir.:, t?:~
E-ii.niatrr oY public deaith of the Central Peo~~le's goverTMreat, and tho Pcipino
F;uaiclp~+1 Pzople's gco~eri:-:ant.
T?r~ d?ties oY the FSociet speci_11at-phyc~.ciaus ire: to give medical treat-?
e.^.nt to the ix:eplo, to give edvanced trainisssr to Chinose doctors sad nurses, to
train iiditicnal Chinese t,eiicEl., pharr?neeutic2l, Ymborutory, end heraJ,t?: per-
soan~l, and to ~a~e reQu;.ar reports on their speciellze~ fields. IIcctor Vo.^^.-
kreaenskiy ~uat give s nonthly health and antiepide~ic report to the people.
Rho preparmfoxy cork for the eatmbliehnent oP the hospital t~:~ran acre than
6 rsonthn r~6o. When z.i Te-ch?can, president of the IIetioastil Red Cruse Society
of China and also Minister of Public Hemlt~, xss en rontc to the Internation~'
Red Crean Conference, she visited and diacnssed the plan oP a ,oint enterprise
betucan the Red Cresa societies oP China and the Soviet Union. When Reshikov,
clce-president o.f the I",ationsl ??ed Croce Society of tL-~ Scv1~L' union, visited
r^'-"_-- ~ 17 J~;::~i-y 192., a GJi1Cidc: plan vas Por~uiuted and the eetmbiish-
a:ent of tfie hospitall. ~'aa then undert~sken under his personal eunervision.(1~
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1. Peiping, 3vnng-wing J1h-p=o, 20 Jan 52
2. Ibid., 22 Jun 52
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