MEDICAL SUPPLY PLANTS IN THE UKRAINE

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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 26, 2012
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 30, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR DATE DISTR.
S4 DEC 1950
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1. The People?s Health Commissariat of the Ukraine had a, large network of hospitals,
clinics, polyclinics, etc. The supplies for all these institutions were produced
in special factories which were under the jurisdiction of the Commissariat. In
Kiev there were three of these factories: The Factory of Medical and Surgical
Instruments; a pharmaceutical plants and an orthopedic plant. In Kharkov there
were three similar factories, and in Odessa; there was a factory of medical and
surgical, instruments. There many also have been a pharmaceutical plant and an
orthopedic plant in Odessa, The productive capacities of
these factories were very large - they were able to fill the requirements fo?'
medical supplies for all the medical institutions in the Ukraine. Some- 50X1-HUM
times the plants had to work two shifts in order to meet the needs of the hospi-
tals, but they did fill the requirements. (The reason for the large number of
hospitals in the Soviet Union is that the Soviets are careful to provide proper
medical attention for their citizens -- not because of the human element involved,
but because the Soviet need for Manpower is so great.)
2. Of the three factories in Kiev which produced medical supplies, the pharmaceutical
plant (imeni Lomanossov) was perhaps the most outstanding. It was a high--levOl
chemical plant. From the standpoint of technology, size and essentiality it was
of the highest level. The scientific consultants on the staff were also univer-
sity professors. The production staff was made up entirely of chemists. The
drugs produced there were of excellent quality.
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3, The Factory of Medical and Surgical Instruments,
was located at No. 33 Cyrillovskaya Street, Kiev, Podol. Besides the basic task of
the factory, which was to supply the hospitals of the Ukraine with medical and surgi-
cal instruments, additional tasks were given to the factory periodically. One of 50X1H U M
the additional tasks for this factory was to supply the Army with kits of medical. -
instruments for use in the field.
to about 400 thousand rubles.
1928 level
in 1939 the order from the Army amounted
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kits and field sterilizers. The kits wore made of plywood. They were about the siz_
of a large suitcase, they had handles, and they were painted grey. They weighed 15
or 16 kilograms. Inside the kits there were plywood fittings for all instruments.
Instruments in the kits included 14 or 15 kinds of surgical implements, equipment for
administering blood transfusions, equipment for hypodermic injections, inhalers,
anesthetic masks, and tourniquets. The surgical instruments included three or four
kinds of scissors, four or five scalpels, and anatomical and. surgical pincers. There
were also containers for drugs and. bandages which were filled by Army medical supply
bases. One complaint from the Army about these kits was that the points on some of
the scissors were not sharp enough. The field sterilizers were made of a soft metal
which was about the color of brass, and they were nickel plated.
4. Other orders filled by our factory for the Army were for scales and dentistsl tools.
These were not included in the 400 thousand ruble order.
5. . plant received the 400 thousand ruble order by 15 Dec 38, which was before the50Xl-H U M
international tension was fully realized in the USSR. Full realization of the tense-
ness of the situation came after a speech was made by Stalin on an anniversary of the
OP in March or April 1939. The order for the field kits and sterilizers was a part of
the plan by which the USSR was becoming prepared before 1939, and by 1939 the Soviets
were "armed to the teeth".
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6. in 1943 the surgical instruments plant had not been damaged by the
Germans. It had been abandoned and was not operating, but it was still in tact. When
the Soviets re-entered Kiev in 1943 there was some fighting in the district of !iev
(Podol) where the plant was located.
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7. The location of two of the Commissariat plants, the factory which produced surgical
instruments and the pharmaceutical plant. are roughly indicated in the following
diagram.
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Factory of Medical and
Surgical. Instruments '
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1325,000
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