Diseases and Sanitary Assistance in Romania, 1917-1918

  • TITLU în română: Boli şi asistenţă sanitară în România anilor 1917-1918
  • Subiect: Before the Great Union, until Novemher, two-thirds of the Romanian national territory was occupied hy foreign, troops. The govemment in Iaşi had theoretical authority in the southem territory hut in reality it was set up a condominium with the German administration. The research of the Archive of Health Services of the Ministry of Internai Affairs showed a partial picture of the state of health and medical care in 1917-1918. The occupation aut horit ies had medical staff, sometimes recruited from ahroad or from the prisoners of war, and set up a network of rural nursing homes, to stop the wave of epidemics inherent to the war years. At the same time, it set up state pharmacies to extend the access of poor people to free medicines. After the return of demohilized persons, doctors and pharmacists, the numher of physicians in office, instead of increasing, has fallen, and the state pharmacies disappeared. Manufactured medicines were lacking, and amid a lot of alcohol, sugar and basic ingredients, no suhstitutes could he made in pharmacies. Under these conditions, epidemics of all kinds crossed Romania without heing ahle to be eradicated. The Great Act of Decemher 1st proved to he another sign that Romania must change structurally to enter the great nations of the world.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Centenarul Marii Uniri (1918-2018)
  • Vezi publicația: Studii şi Articole de Istorie: SAI
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2018
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: 85; anul 2018
  • Paginaţia: 51-73
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