MEDICAL SERVICE IN THE RUMANIAN ARMY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500800290-9
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Sequence Number: 290
• Publication Date: March 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT
Medical Service in the Rum-nJ n Army
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One meda.cal doctor ; th miilt:.ry rank of captain or mw.jor
Two medical (:;anitr t'.on) ::ub-officer:; .
Three oonltctlon gent:;, (..ee note below)
The medical office of the ~1.LV. Ion in charge of the medical :;uperviclor. of all
units under the d:'.visiont;: :Juthor ty. The office keeps medical f1les and nl;;o
insures the nece:,:;ary medical core for the divisionts personnel. The regiments
and the indcnendent ba.ttal _or.c have their medical offices which have the fol:ow: ng
personnel:
One lieutenant-doctor or a major-ncctor.
One sanitation rub-ufi'.i cer,
Three or four sanitation agents (Note: must be'bick room attendants")
Two professioral nur:;cs.
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4. The Pharmaceutical Office of the AMr: It is in charge cf sipp'ying the medical
offices of the army with medicines and medical instruments. The office has
authority over the central medical depot located on the Soseaua P. S. Aurelian,
in Bucharest. The office also has authority over all pharmacies belonging to
the military hospitals and to the army commands. The officers head is a colonel-
pharmacist.
5. The Veterinary Office of the Army: It is in charge of maintaining in good health
the animals used by the army. Veterinary offices are set up at all anmy commands
where troops have horses. Veterinary offices also exist in cavalry units, horse-
drawn artillery units, mountaineer units. Subh veterinary offices are staffed
with one veterinarian and one veterinary attendant. They carry out only "visiting"
duties end whenever hospitalization is needed public veterinary hospitals are used.
6. Medical Office of the Air Porce: The members of the crews are carefully examined
twice a year by the flights med'cal commission, headed by a president and staffed
with specialists in heart, lungs, nose, throat, ears, eyes, etc. If a pilot is
found by the commission to be physically unfit to fly he is barred from flying
either temporarily or, in serious cases, permanently. The air force divisionst
medical offices keep medical files and carry out medical inspections of the sub-
ordinate units. The air force regiments and the battalions in charge of servicing
airports have their own medical offices which are organized in the same way as
those of the ground troops.
7. The duties of the regimental doctor:
a. A detailed medical checkup of the reLr?.iits. The recruits are weighed,
measured, examined internally (including ). rays), and vaccinated. The
vaccines are typhoid and paratyphoid. The recruits ore also inoculated
against :;m'-llpor.. fill these inoculat'.ons take place within one month after
the recruits e ,."ter the service. Each 6 months re-vaccinations are carried
out, as .-rell as shots against typhoid.
8. b. Medical inspect=on of s.li buildings in use: offices, dormitorwes, mess
halls, workshops, guar::~ :~r~e, cr
c. Checking the quality (.of unprepared food as well as that of the meals,
by making daily tests.
d. A monthly medical checkup of the troops. The doctor also sees that
the troops take their 4,eckiy both.
e. The test tubes with sample: frog the daily meals are kept 43 hours.
f. A medical checkup and blood analyst: of cooks and food handlers every
two weeks.
g. Medical help for officer:;, sub-officers and their families.
8. Light oases are treated at the unites infirmary. In case of prolonged treatments
or in case of operations, the p^tients are sent to the military hospitals. The
medical care In the hospitals is .znsatisfactory because of the bureaucratic red
tape. These procedures leave the patient unattended and without medical care for
8 to 10 days after he enters the hospital. In some instances, patients tiara left
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withoit food, as well. There is a serious shortage of doctors for the high
number of sick persons. There is also scarcity in medicines and medical
equipment: gloves, thread, surgical instruments. etc. Special authorization
must be granted for administering penicillin and streptomycin. D.ie to such
formalities,- very often the patient has died before the treatment could be
administered. The,-special authorizations are given more easily for soldiers
who. are members of the Communist party, because in such cases the interventions
are made by and through the party.
Medical treatment for the officerst and cub-officers' families, even '?1n bases-
of special treatments carried out by civilian clinics or hospitals, 'are paid
by the Ministry of Armed Forces.
10. Generally speaking the health conditions (hygiene) of the air force units
are good but the food is bad. Many soldiers have stomach diseases because
of the bad food. In some units, special approval has been obtained to secure
diets for the sick men. The men cannot better the food situation because
they do not have money and because they are not allowed to receive packages
from their families,. This measure was taken so that the civilians would not
know that the army food is bad. When the men complain about the food, the
political commissars hold lectures in which they emphasize the bad situation
of the army during the "bourgeois" times. At such lectures they also tell
stories from the lives of the :lovlet soldiers calling them'the bravest in
the world".
11. The most widespread illnesses are, stomach ailments, venereal diseases and
tuberculosis of the lungs.
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