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THE WEISHENGSHU EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TRAINING SCHOOL
CHANGSHA)
This school is officially operated by the Training
Institute of the Central Field Health Station of the Weishengshu (National Health Administration) under the Ministry of Interior.
Several other organizations also take an important part in the
actual conduct of the school, namely, the Chun I-Shu (Army
Medical Administration), National Red Cross Society of China*, and the National Council for Rural Reconstruction (N.C.R.R.).
Funds for its support come from the British Boxer Indemnity and
N.C.R.R. The budget of the school does not suffice to pay for
all running expenses, but this insufficiency is made up by the
assignment of teachers from various departments of the
Weishengshu, National Red Cross and the Social Medicine
Department of the N.C.R.R.
As the government has placed all civil war-time
medical organizations and services under the supervision of the
Weishengshu, for the purpose of economy, coordination and
unified control, the training program of the school has been
directly linked up with the field services of the Chun I-Shu,
Weishengshu and National Red Cross. To secure this objective
the Director of the School is at the same time in charge of
the field units of the Weishengshu and the National Red Cross,
and is responsible to the Surgeon General for the auxiliary
medical services provided by the two civil organizations.
The school consists of the following departments,
military, medical, surgical, nursing, preventive medicine,
sanitary, and organization. Practical teaching along some of
these lines is given in an army base hospital especially assigned
In this hospital, the Departments of Surgery,
to the school.
Medicine
Note: The war time field activities of the National Red Cross Society of China are conducted by the Medical Relief Commission of the Society.