SOVIET NAVAL MEDICAL PERSONNEL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000600410006-4
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 27, 2009
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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SECURITY INFORMATION
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COUNTRY
REPORT
USSR
SUBJECT
Soviet Naval Medical Personnel DATE D
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11 may 1953..
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Commissioned personnel in the Naval Medical Corps fall into the following two basic
groups of officers s
Medical assistants were graduates of naval medical schools ' (Voyenno Morekoye
Meditsinskoys Uchilishche) which were located in Leningrad and Vladivostok, Depending
on the grades one ' had received in school, a graduate of one of these schools be given the rank of either iunior lieutenant or lieutenant Nn. 25X1
Medical assistants (Voyenr Feldsher)
Medical doctors (Voyenny, r Vra?h).
In a eptiona~. cases., when there
was a great demand for naval assistants., vacant places were filled with drafted
civilian graduates of, medical technical schools (Meditainskiy tekhnikum) and
medical assistant's midwife mchools (Feldehersko lisherskaya Shkola),of which there
were many in the USSR, Graduates of-'the latter schools normally were drafted into
.the navy as sailoreg.after completing basic training., they would be given a medical
assistant's refresher course., promoted to the rank of junior lieutenant Cy and
assigned as medical assistants with units or naval medical installations,
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STATE' 1 #11 ARMY t NAVY I #Z AIR
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s RBr CURI ORMATION
( j issuing,,on an obligatory basis s!D.. prophylactics to
personnel returning from liberty. I.n the . Soviet no
was considered a most serious breach of discipline,
equivalent; to. desertion
treatment of patients _was regulated by the Medic 1 u ?. an '.s
ot-' ' Armed Foroea , Aocording . to, the reguiatiofl of ? this
manual, a medical assistant working without ,supervision of a
medical doctor was authorized to maakea diagnoa s and to adim3,gitt,r,
medicines. where there was no,a 1 -#{t as to the axature cf% tbe,
i11n6se . He was ales + utborized "to give fever-righting. drugs,
Swat' -all patients with questionable d; ` gp, ,.,tee, as well as pe>"tie>t is
with ' a fever which refias$d to drop after the fever-fighting
drugs had been given, were to be referred immediately to a
abdical doctor
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enforcement of personal hygiene rules for the kitchen .
personnel; control over the condition of dishes and k tohen
utensils. This was one of the most important duties of a
medical assistant.
(7) Preparation of the. daily measnu, its adjustment to the
prescribed caloric values and obligatory tests. of each pre-
pared meal.served personnel.
(8) Medical checkup of KP details, especially in respect to
cleanliness and possible skif disease.
(9) and instructing the personnel of his unit or
installation in sanitation practices.
b. In, the field of treatment of patients, the medical assistant,
as' chief of medical service, was authorised to dO''.tbe following:..
(i) Render first aid to personnel injured. in accidents.
(2) PerfOOrm unsupervised daily sick-.call.
( ) , Make diagnosis where no doubt existed as to its oorre6tnfe5,?
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