PUBLIC WEALTH SERVICE IN ALBANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005300150006-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2007
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 1, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This material contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Espionage Laws, Title 18. U.S.O. Seca. 783
and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in
any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited
by law.
SUBJECT Public Health Service in Albania
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
10 November 1951+
NO. OF PAGES 1
REQUIREMENT NO. RD
REFERENCES
THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SEE REVERSE)
1. The public health service has rny de little progress in .~)b:..n9..a. The tubercu-
losis rate in Albania is very high and the population is "ainst hospital treatment.
There is a shortage of doctors in the country. German doctors, (East German?) who
would be welcomed by the people, have not been admitted by the Albanian government.
However, doctors from other People's Republics are serving in Albania.
2. Albanian doctors work an average of 12 hours a day; foreign doctors work only
eight hours and receive better pay. Three new sanatoria have been established.
The largest is located near Tirana. Each sanatorium has a Soviet director and a
Soviet political administrator.
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