Speaker. I have a letter today from the Department of State that says in part: As you know. invaluable contributions to "the other war" in Vietnam are made by voluntary agencies and other nonprofit organizations rendering asistance to the Vietnamese people through humanitarian relief and development programs. Twentyfive American organizations. supported by the Agency for International Development. are actively conducting aid programs in the fields of education. health. social welfare. and refugee assistance. The AMA Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam is one of the most important of these little publicized but highly effective programs. Administered by the American Medical Association and financed by A.I.D. this program every month sends twelve to sixteen U.S. doctors to Vietnam. where they complete a tour assignment of at least sixty days in provincial hospitals in twentytwo locations. supplementing drastically inadequate resident medical staffs. These skilled American physicians. a number of them specialists. take time off from their own practices at home to serve in Vietnam on an unpaid volunteer basis. receiving only a subsistence allowance and travel expenses under the terms of their contracts. They care for the Vietnamese civilian populationwar casualties. refugees. and other nonmilitary victims of disease. accident. and illnesses of all kinds. Their patients are of all ages. from infants to old men and women. After their tours are completed. some of these doctors return to Vietnam for a second or a third voluntary assignment. others come back as long term employees to work with the U.S.A.I.D. mission for several years.
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