INTERPRETING THE'AID GIVEN TO RUSSIA BY 77-fAMERICAN RE0 Clk'dSS
To hope the following article rill Clarify tho assistance given Russia by the Ameri
can Red Cross during the rar period. "Quote"
"During the war period're agreed to assist the Soviet Red Cross by furnishing limited,
basic eauipment for 10,000 so-called visiting nursing centers which the Soviet Red
Cross proposed to establish'in rural areas of the'eountry which otherwise lacked med
ical facilities of any kind.' These small clinics, to be conducted under the sponsor
ship of the Soviet Red Cross, were in the nature of first-aid stations and were to be
manned with Soviet Red Cross personnel sonvhat comparable to our nurses’ aid's. The
program of the clinics was to include child-care, teach community public health and
provide other basic health measures. These clinics were to be'extremely simple
health and first-aid stations, providing only limited services, but were to be a dis
tinctive function of the Soviet Rod Cross. As you know, one of our chief concerns
has been assistance to sister societies in an effort to strengthen their already ex
isting as well as their newly developed services,
''The American Red Cross did n6t install clinics for this project. The supplies which
wa ; rovided were sterilisers, first-aid and casualty station medical kits, a quantity
of surplus hospital gowns, scissors, bandages, needles, forceps, syringes and other
simole cl inic' equipment. The total value of the supplies furnished for this project
was $539,724.°0.
"As for horn- itals, our final commitment in conclusion of our relief program to the '
Soviet Red Cross, which was made during the pcr&od immediately following hostilities,
was equipment for four 250-bed hospitals, one to be established in Byelorussia', one
in the Ukraine, and two in the Moscow area. This equipment valued at $183,411.00 was
shipped to the U.S.S.R. in January of this year. It is intended that when the hos
pitals are set up and opened for services to the public in those areas where hospital
facilities have been devastated in the course of war, American Red Cross representa
tives will visit Russia to dedicate the institutions and inspect their services.
"Cur relief operation in the Soviet Union was officially concluded
no future asristance is contemplated." Unquote.
in August 1946 and
IX ring the war many hospital unit s, ‘ including instruments, beds etc., were shipped to
Alaska to be used for any emergency. Pacific Area has given permission to all chap
ters to retain their unit to be used in their community. Cent, on page 11
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