MEDICAL CONFERENCES

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CIA-RDP82-00457R012800140002-7
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March 8, 2011
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July 9, 1952
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REPORT
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/08: CIA-RDP82-00457RO12800140002-7 SECRET/CONTROL, ? U.S. OFFICIALS LS ONLY SECURITY INFORMATION INFORMATION REPORT REPORT COUNTRY Hungary SUBJECT Medical Conferences DATE OF INFO. PLACE ACQUIRED NOT CIRCW THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 18, SECTIONS 793 AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE- LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED. CD NO. DATE DISTR. 9 July 1952 NO. OF PAGES 2 NO. OF ENCLS. (LISTED BELOW) SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. 50X1-HUM THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION la A two-day Scientific Conference of Army Medical Officers, held in the Central Officeres Club of the People9s Army, was opened by Major-General Kdroly Janza, a deputy Minister of National Defense and was attended by the followings Lt... General Istvan Szab6, also a deputy Minister of National Defense ? representing General Mihaly Farkas Anna Ratko Minister of Health Frigyes Doleschali a deputy Minister of Health, a specialist in internal diseases. Istvan Rus7nyak .y. President of the Academy of. Sciences Pal Gcgesi Kis Dean of the University of Medical Sciences of Budapest Dr. Dines Felkai no other information and several prominent Hungarian physicians, Kossuth prizewinners, and University professorso CLASSIFICATION SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICIALS ONLY DISTRIBUTION Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/08: CIA-RDP82-00457RO12800140002-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/08: CIA-RDP82-00457RO12800140002-7 50X1-HUM SECRET./CONTROL - US. OFFICIALS ONLY On April 17, 1952, a, ?S?ndor Kor&nyi ? Medical Rover meeting,, organized by the Academy of Sciences was opened, by Istvan Ruisznv&k in the presence of Anna, Ra,tko, about, 500 doctors and the Soviet Professor Germanov, The meeting was welcomed by Bela Issekutz head of the Department of Medical Sciences in the Academy of Science. who pointed out that this was the first meeting to deal with the acceleration of cicatrisation. The first report, was made by Im?e 'r-6., Professor of Hysterology and Evolution at the Lorand EotvPs University and a Kossuth prizewinner who dealt with the biological syraptoms of the treatment of wounds, Lt, Colonel Gyirgy Sz ,nt; of the Medical Service,, pointed out that the development of Hungarian knowledge about the .speeding up of cicatrisa.tion was due to Soviet influence, 5. Dr. PP1 G +mmri, a University Professor, who spoke on the second day of the meeting, subsequently wrote an article, emphasI7,ing that one of the most important subjects discussed, had been the ?much neglected territory of traumatology ? and pointing out to the 100 odd young research workers (who had been helped to attend the meeting by the Party and the Goverment) that the fight could not be carried out merely by voicing Pavrlov~s dialectical slogans, an error "nt3 which many of the doctors who spoke at the meet-ling had faller but by the sound scientific work. mmeut s Parag_rapph. 5 illustrates the hidden struggle between some men of science and the medical pc icy of the Communist Party, Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/03/08: CIA-RDP82-00457RO12800140002-7