[Rural medicine].

There is a need for radical restructuring of training of physicians with subsequent post-graduate training every three years and quarterly improvement of self-education of physicians. Head physicians of regional rural hospitals should be released from all administrative and economic functions. This is the responsibility of an administrator with higher technical or economic education. Regional and rural Soviets should provide physicians-graduates with dwelling space or flats at their arrival to the place of work; ensure patronage for all kinds of care at rural regional hospitals, their departments and wards; undertake daily supervision and provision of rural hospitals with food products and in autumn time with firing. Rural physicians should be granted an opportunity each month to order food products for themselves and their families from collective-farms at State and collective-farm prices. The Ministry of Health of the USSR should solve the questions of centralization of supply and standardization of equipment and medical appliances for rural hospitals.