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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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