title: [The organization, aims and tasks of the health service of the State Repatriation Department in years 1944-1950].
abstract: Control of communicable diseases, particularly acute infections, among the repatriants was a crucial problem, in terms of medical care and the possibility of spreading diseases in the country. The establishment of a "sanitary cordon" was impossible both due to difficulties in sanitation and to the massive and chaotic repatriation in the periods after end of war. Therefore a number of special camps were organized on the various-main repatriation entrance points, and within the country, especially in territories where the repatriants settled i.e. the Western Provinces. In the four most important entrance points isolation hospitals were organized. The repatriant camps were also provided with drugs, equipment and means of disinfection. Health Section of the State Repatriation Department (PUR) was creating its own health service for the repatriants in the years 1944-1950. Its relation to repatriation were limited to general epidemiological supervision, providing funds for treatment of repatriants suffering from communicable diseases and the partial provision of medical supplies to the PUR facilities.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Humanistycznych Nauk Lekarskich Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wieckowska
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006293:Health Promotion; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011044:Poland; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D014857:Warfare
vernacular_title: Organizacja, cele i Zadania słuzby zdrowia Państwowego Urzedu Repatriacyjnego w latach 1944-1950.