The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Medical unit for Siberia

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4149940The Czechoslovak Review, volume 3, no. 4 — Medical Unit for Siberia1919

MEDICAL UNIT FOR SIBERIA.

For some time it has been planned by the American Red Cross to send out surgeons and nurses and medical supplies to the Czechoslovak Army in Siberia. It is known that Czechoslovak troops have their own medical officers and Russian nurses; many of their invalids were sent to Japan where they received good attention from the Japanese Red Cross. Recently about 500 wounded soldiers unfit for more fighting were sent home directly by sea from Siberia to Trieste. At the same time it is well known that drugs and medical supplies are extremely scarce in Siberia and that more surgeons are needed there.

The American Red Cross, which is doing so much to relieve the terrible suffering prevailing in Siberia sent out at the end of March the so-called Siberian-Czechoslovak Commission, consisting of 20 doctors, 20 graduate nurses, 20 nurses’ aid, 4 druggists, 5 dentists and a number of technical assistants. Among the Bohemian physicians enlisted in this Red Cross work are Dr. J . Rudiš-Jičinský, Dr. J. Čepelka, Dr. Václav Anýž, Dr. Joseph Otradovec, all of Chicago, Dr. A. R . Hemala, Dr. A. Moravka and Dr. F. A. Sedláček, of Omaha, Neb.

This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.

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