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remedied by the training of new personnel and the re-training
of the old. For this purpose, an Emergency Medical Service
Training School has been organized since June 1 of this year.
A brief outline of the nature of this school is attached.
To cope with the need above mentioned, it is necessary
to enlarge the school and take in many more students. It now
has 200 per class. It is desirable to expand the facilities
to admit 500. The results already achieved indicate that the
school, if enlarged and provided with more instructors and
further equipment, may well be used to train both old and new
personnel for the Army Medical Service. The improvement of the
personnel of the Army Medical Service will constitute the
greatest single contribution that can be made towards the
alleviation of the suffering of the wounded.
The present 12-month budget of the School is 894.736.
If the school is enlarged to take care of 500 students, the
budget will have to be increased to $275,000, requiring an additional $180,000 (approximately £10,000).
Besides financial aid, it will be necessary to secure
more instructors and since there are so few qualified
individuals in China capable and experienced enough to
undertake this work, the only solution seems to be to secure
the assistance of suitable foreigners. It must also be kept
in mind that the school is responsible for developing the
organization and field procedures of the medical service.
(There is no equivalent of the R.A. M. C. in the Chinese Army).
To achieve these objectives it is desirable to have
examples of an efficient field organization as models for both
training, adaptation and organization. If it were possible
to secure such fully equipped and staffed units from a foreign
country, e.g., a British Red Cross Field Hospital and Field
Ambulance/
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