 Struthers worked hard to ensure no medical equipment was taken by the Nationalists, and he reopened the hospital.As Dean of Cheeloo, Struthers moved the medical school to Fuzhou in 1948 for a year due to a fear of a Communist attack, He left for Canada in 1950 after returning when Shanghai fell to the Communists.Shortly after returning to Toronto, Canada, during which he worked in tuberculosis surveillance, Struthers traveled to Korea in 1953.