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352:MM Dr. King calls Drug Shortage acute.) -2- Even in some of the best provided hospitals the majority of patients cannot be given the modern treatment they should have on account of the shortage of these and many other essential items. "Yet China's total requirements are not as huge as might be thought. The daily needs of the National Health Administration, which supplies not only all the government hospitals, clinics and health centers, but also the medical institutions of the Provinces, are no more than one ton per day. It is estimated that the Army Medical Corps may need about three tons per day, while the different medical enterprises of the Red Cross and the numerous mission hospitals will probably require one more ton per day. "The problem of providing a monthly total of one hundred fifty tons of medical supplies does not seem difficult especially since American and British deliveries have been more or less sufficient in the past. The difficulty is transportation since Rangoon, the only inlet to the Burma-China Road, has been closed and since the development of alternative land and river routes from British India to China will require considerable time. It is, therefore, seriously suggested that one or two freight planes should be made available by the United States for the exclusive purpose of flying medical materials from India to the nearest Chinese terminus from where they would be hauled on to the places where they are required. "The second major problem facing the National Health Administration at present is the prevention of large scale epidemics during the coming summer. The opening of many thousands of miles of new roads across Provinces which had formerly been more or less isolated from each other and the migration of millions of people from occupied to unoccupied areas and within Free China have brought a new tendency for the practically nationwide spread of any local flare-up of infectious diseases epidemic in certain areas. This is true of smallpox, cholera, relapsing fever, malaria and others. (over)
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