MEDICAL PRACTICE AND HOSPITAL ADMINSTRATION IN RUMANIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R003600040009-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 26, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: November 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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1. The practice of medicine and administration of hospitals is supervised by
"Regional Sanitary Unions", directed by a president and three or four members.
These unions supervise the cultural, political and economic activities of the
membership. Each regional union supports an ARLUS cultural center, whose
official purpose is the promotion of friendship between the Rumanian and Soviet
peoples. In reality the true purpose of this cultural center is to spread
propaganda for Coroaunism and to use up the free time of the members in, lectures,,
discussion groups and demonstrations. r1embers are given study projects Which
require work in Catuvnist newspapers and periodicals. Labor is likowiso required
of ..embers. The following notice was posted at the children's hospital in
Strad. Grigore Alexandrescu? Bucharest: "On (date not given) too truckloads
of -potatoes arrived and the folloring canradee helped to unload the trucks.
These who were absent yesterday will be punished".
II Principal posts are entrusted to members of the 1b manian liorkers Party Who
,genoraally lack the necessary training. They are in turn assisted by specialists
Who, do the work and are held responsible. For example, a fourth-year medical
student who is a Party member is designated as nose, throat and ear specialist.
I.tedical studonts do not specialize in nose, ear and throat until the fifth and
sixth years. At the 1T.C.l3. Hospital a former interne whose specialty is
stomatology has boon appointed chief hygienist. At one unidentified hospital
the administrator is said to be a gypsy who is unable to present reports to
the staff meetings. Such reports are delivered for him by a physician. Persons
responsible for cultural and economic matters must consult the individual
responsible for political matters before reaching a decision on any problem;
the person responsible for political matters must in turn consult the chief of
cadres who is a Party official.
. Party functionaries give no weight to reccrnondations of non-Party specialists,
A ph ysiciaan ow-not grant sick leave for a period longer than seven days v4haato-1rar
nay be the condition of the patient. If more then seven days leave is needec,
a special oc omission of Party members who have no medical' training make on
investigation. During the visit of one such cce mission to a hospital it
investigated a patient with an ovary disorder requiring X-ray treatment and a
month of canplote rest. A nonber of the cormisein remarked that this woman.
had been in the hospital sewer aal times before, to which the physician replied
that since treatments had not been of cuff'iciont duration the patient had not
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been cured. VWhereupon the member of the camnission asked, "why don't you take
out the ovaries in such oases'".
C, Physicians are forbidden to request patients to bring drugs with them; to the
hospital, even though such drugs are not available.at the hospital. They are
likewise forbidden to ask the patients to bring their own linen. Drugs and
equipment are in short supply. Ordinary sewing thread dipped in alcohol is
used for sewing incisions. The drug "Chelenul", which is used as an anesthetic,
is imported fran the USSR; it isgonerally impure and can be fatal because of
the large doses that must be adninistered. Soviet-manufaoturod penicillin is
said to be worthless and. has resulted in the death of patients using ita
High Party functionaries are treated at the Elias Hospital, where foreign
nedioinea of the best quality are stocked. A special authorization cof the
ministry of Interior is required for admission to the institution.
5. Professors of medical subjects in the universities have been left und.isturbedQ
but their assistants are all members of the Party. Purses of long service
who are not ?arty members, and for wham replacements are not availabiu, aro
required to work longer hours than nurses belonging to the Party, in some
instances up to fourteen hours daily.
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