The Joint Distribution Committee is inaugurating a $1,000,000 program of medical relief in the Soviet Union and has already shipped five billion Oxford units of penicillin under the terms of an agreement reached recently by the J.D.C. with the Russian Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, it was announced today.
Dr. Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman, disclosed that the J.D.C. “will equip five 500-bed hospitals and two 250-bed institutions in the Ukraine and White Russia, areas in which large numbers of the Jewish persons in Russia are now living.”
Supplies for the hospitals are now being purchased in the United States. They will be completely equipped with basic operating room and sterilizing room supplies; surgical instruments and accessories; laboratory equipment; diagnostic and therapeutic X-ray equipment and accessories; dental units; physiotherapy apparatus; pharmaceuticals; ophthalmological equipment; hospital linens and clothing and maternity beds and equipment, it was reported.
Additional shipments of penicillin, valued at over $170,000 will leave this country for the Ukraine and White Russia during the next few months, it was disclosed.
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