CLINICS AND POLYCLINICS IN MOSCOW

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 6, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE , AGENCY .
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR (Moscow Oblast)
SUBJECT Clinics and Polyclinics in Moscow
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2. On page 2, paragraph 6, read Mikhail for Mikhal.
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COUNTRY USSR/Moscow
SUB?ECT Clinics and Polyclinics in Moscow
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Morozovskaya Hospital
1. This hospital (Attachment A), known as the Pervaya Obraztsovaya
Detskaya Bol'nitsa, was a free children's hospital and was located
on Mytnaya Ulitsa in Moscow. This hospital comprised several (per-
haps as manv as eirxht) old two and three story brick buildins.
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in com--
Pediatrics
conditions were generally much better at the clinics
T e o
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sp as
was more crowded and not as clean, patients received less individual
attention from the staff, and the quality and variety of food was
worse.
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Clinic on Novokuzuetsha
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one of
the clinics of the Scientific Research Institute for Pediatrics
(Nauchno Issledovatel'skiy Institut Pediatrii-NIIP) which was located
on Novokuznetskaya Ulitsa.
4. This clinic was situated in a small two-story building. On the first
floor were two wards, one for boys and the other for girls. The
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former contained approximately 1
_beds while the latter was son
tall beds were occupied. ere two cc ors w o
made hospital calls each morning and there was at least one nurse on
duty 24 hours a day. Student doctors often accompanied staff
physicians when they made their daily rounds. In addition to jaundice
patients, the w
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0o was much better than at the Morozovskaya
Hospital . patients were fed four times each day; meals included
such items as meat, soup, fish as well as many vegetables. Fruit
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since
the food was very good snd the clinic was well equipped with children's
games and toys which were not available in the Morozovskaya Hospital,
medical treatment and equipment were probably also better in this
clinic.
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the most up-to-date theories
and techniques were being practiced at the. subordinate childrens'
clinics.
Nervnaya Klinika
6.
a Doctor Mikhal TURETSKIYL-__1 was a n uro at o s and r ba ly
the director of the Nerve Clinic at NIIP.
this clinic which was located in a two or three-story
br -ek ui ng about 70 x 20 in. on Solyanka Ulitsa #14. Next to this
building were other buildings housing clinics belonging to the NIIP.
7. The nerve clinic was located on the second floor and included the
following rooms:
a. A boys' ward with eight beds;
b. A girls, ward with 16 beds;
c. A small duty room for nurses;
A small isolation room with two beds; it was customary for all
patients to spend a week in this room upon admittance.
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Some of the
patients in this clinic had spastic paralysis and others suffered
from facial paralysis. (The latter received hot araffin co resses
daily.)
e. Operating room; this room contained an operating table and was
frequently used for giving patients injections, blood tests;,
and spinal.taps.
f. Treatment room; this room contained heating lamps and mercury
vapor lamps. Patients were sometimes brought here for heat
treatments, massages and baths.
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also contained a clinic for mental disorders called Klinika Pro-
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9. Food and general facilities in the Nerve Clinic were oomparable to
those in the clinic on Novokuznetzky Ulitsa. Patients were urged
to move about and not remain in bed unless they were unable to walk.
experimental research was conducted o.
nerve clinic.
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were brought into the clinic and put through a series of tests.
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the rabbits whiie eir legs were immersed first in hot water (50-
600 C.) for 10 minutes and then in cold water (00 C.) for 10
minutes. The rabbits Were then dried under heat lamps and removed
from the clinic. These rabbits appeared normal but they were not
very lively.
Childrens' Polyclinic
11. This clinic, Detskaya Polikiinika, was one of several fr
polyclinics in Moscow for children under the axe of 16,
This
poilrcu n was ocated on Zhitnaya Ulitsa in a three-story, 25 x 25 m.
building which contained the following rooms and offices:
a. Admittance room. This small room, where patients' temperatures
and pulses were recorded, was located on the first floor.
b. Waiting room.
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type located on the first floor.
where patients were examined and treated by various specialists
d. Doctors' offices. The polyclinic contained 15 - 20 doctors'
offices or small clinics located on the first and second floors
as well as general practioners.
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(1) General practioners' offices; five of these offices with
two doctors in each office.
(2) Roentgenologist's office;
(3) Ophthalmologist's office;
(4) Otorhinolaryngologist's office;
(5) Dermatologist's office;
(6) Neuropathologist's office;
(7) Dental office; one office with several dental chairs used
by several dentists.
e. Therapy room. This room was located on the second floor and
used for massage, baths, and heat lamp treatment.
f. Analysis laboratory The lab . as ors the third floor.
12. Patients did not remain in the polyclinic overnight but went there
only for diagnosis and treatment. Drugs and medicaments were not
ordinarily? obtained at the polyclinic, but were obtained from a
drug store (opteka) upon presentation of a prescription from a
physician. Anyone under the age of 16 was eligible to receive
medical attention here.. When visiting the polyclinic for the first
time, it was necessary to show verification of age and present
address. The children first went to the admittance room where
their temperature and pulse were recorded by a nurse. Those with
infectious diseases were not permitted to remain in the polyclinic;
they were sent to a hospital or asked to go home. In the latter
case, they were sometimes visited by a general practioner from the
polyclinic. From the admittance room, patients went to the waiting
room where they were presented with an appointment card (ocherednoy
talon) on which were the date and time of appointment, doctors' name,
-office number, and order number. (If the order number was 13, there
were 12 patients ahead of the patient holding number 13.) It was
sometimes possible for the patients to see.a doctor on the same day,
but frequently they had to wait one or two weeks. Physicians at
this polyclinic had "norms", but he did not know how many patients
the doctors were supposed to see during any given period. He did
recall that on a few occasions his order number was higher than 20.
Homeopathic Polyclinic
13.
the Homeopathic
Polyclinic Gomeopaticheskaya Poliklinika on Trubnaya Ploshchad'
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14.
omeopa is olyclinic
loccupied a part of a
arge, old, two-story stucco building. It had an admittance room
and a large waiting room which led into several offices occupied
by various practioners.
15. Unlike the regular hospital, clinics,..ana polyclinics, the Homeo-
approximately 30 rubles each vis in spite or this, more patients
visited this polyclinic than the regular polyclinics. Source attri-
buted this to the fact that people received more individual attention
here than at the regular polyclinics, where errors in diagnosis
Were common. This polyclinic was for out-patients only and the
medicaments which were pr
homeopathic drug stores.
omeopaths in the USSR were not officially recognized as doctors,,
nee they could not request that a worker be released from duty
because of illness as medical doctors could.
Polyclinic attached to the First City Hospital
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a. General practioners' offices;
b. Neuropathologists' office;
c. Gynecologist's office;
d. Neurologist's office;
e. Epidemiologist's office;
f. Surgeons' office;
g. Waiting room;
h. Treatment room.
uiiices in sc nc:
of this polyclinic was similar to that of the ch1ldranl' Polyclinic.
located in a 40 x 20 m., two-story, brick building on Bol'shaya
K 1uzhskaya Ulltsa. The admittance of patients and general setup
rooms and
In addition, there were several other rooms and offices on the first
floor. There may have been an analysis laboratory on the second
floor. The dental office as well as offices for the ophthalmalogist,
otorhinolaryngologist, pathologist, and roentgenologist were in an
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1. Scientific Ilesearab Institute for Pediatrics, Solysi Ulttsa 14.
U. Nerve Clinic and Professor Speraaskty 021416 or VIV.
2. Cbildreni Polyclinic, Zbltnays Olites.
3. Clinic of MIIP, Hovokusaetskya Olit" tapprea3sate location).
4. First City Hospital, Hol'abya iolesbsl~ya Qlitsa.
5. Polyclinic attach d to the First City Hospital.
6. Morosovskaya Hospital, Mytnaya Olitsa.
7. Homeopathic Polyclinic, Trubnsya Ploshabad'.
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