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HEALTH AND HOSPITALIZATION
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Manila Area
Through the cooperation of doctors, nurses,
volunteer work-
ers, other health and social agencies, it was possible to give a variety of medical and nursing care to the British evacuees. Time, effort, and money were not spared in an endeavor to meet the needs of those who were ill and to prevent illness of others. The ages of these recipients ranged from the prenatal stage to
the late sixties.
At Red Cross Headquarters, during the emergency period, six nurses were on duty in the clinic of the Health and Hospitaliza- tion Section, from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. A physician was on
Examinations were made, duty daily for ambulatory patients.
specimen collected for laboratory tests, medicines prescribed, and supplied to those unable to buy their own, treatments were
One given, babies weighed, formulae and special diets ordered. nurse accompanied the physician on his home visits to the patients. Other nursing visits were made for general health supervision, and
Patients were accompanied for individual nursing care as needed.
by nurses to and from dispensaries and hospitals.
The work was
well coordinated between the nurses in the dormitories and those
in the Central Office.
Three physicians from the Bureau of Health gave medical serv-
ice in the dormitories during the early part of July.
However,