CIVILIAN MEDICAL FACILITIES AND CONDITIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A003900760001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 28, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

Approved.For Release 2002/07/24: CIA-RDP80-0081OA003900760001-5
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL - U.S.
COUNTRY USSR (Voroshilovgrad Oblast)
SUBJECT Civilian Medical Facilities and
Conditions
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25X1 SOURCE:
This material contains Intormation &SecUM the Na-
tional Defense of the United Btates within the mean-
ing of the Nepionap Lath. Title 18. U.B.O. Sees. 79f
and 794. the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorised person Is prohibited
by law.
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DATE DISTR.
28 Sept
. 1954
NO. OF PAGES
3
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
Medical Facilities
1. In 1950, when the housing project was built for the miners in Krasnopole
(H 50-47, E 35-15), a new polyclinic was also constructed. Previously,
only a small polyclinic with one doctor had served the area. The new
polyclinic was a one-story building with about ten rooms. All specialties
were represented among the staff physicians. A small hospital, inclltding
a maternity section, was located nearby. A. larger hospital -,,rith a sur
section specifically for the care, of the numerous mine -cci_dents was located
in Kadiyevka (N 48-34, 7 38-40). This hospital was, in F_peneral, poorlj
equipped. For example, it did not have facilities for an aq.:pendectom y.
entire urolo ,?r section had only one cystoscope and no crjui,:pment for contrast
urography. A small hospital, maternity home,and a small polyclinic were
located in laryarika. No details are known concerning these insf,allation:.
2. Adtriinistration of activities in the entire mining area was carried on through
a government office in Voroshilovgrad. This office kept in touch with the
mines by means of a small, old biplane used to deliver orcce>r. s and mess :,ges .
The plane was also used to evacuate the seriously ill or injured to hospitals
in the larger cities.
3. There were no medical, feldsher, or veterinary schools in the area. The
nearest university was in Kiev where a medical school and a, feldsher school
were also located. There were no facilities for producing ph