REPOSITORY Doér7 / PAS? COLLECTION P BOX No. § O€ “etyong V MY 7 “’ : “SRDA Bio- MED, DR. COMARD FOLDER ac District Administrator, Marshalls 12/2/e€e Devuty Director of Health Services warsnallese Medical Patients BEST COPY AVAILABLE Reference is made to my memo dated October 24 in reply to yours of October 17 1969 concerning Marshallese medical petient referrals trevellin;, within or going outside of the Trust Territory. where seers to pe some confusion as to wie is resrnonsible for this situation. We have clarified this subject with the lign Cormis- sioner's office end leadguerters Finance through Mr. George Hoover and it is agreed that we take the following rolicies: —~. All medical referrals requiring internationel travel to the United States or other countries outside of the Trust Territory excent Guam and Honolulu will be trepared by our office. We need ample time to prepare these so advance notice is requested as to who will be travelling patients, escorts or interpreters: where, when and length of the travel and other necessary particulars. 2. All intra or inter-district travel and for routine or emergency medical referrals to Guam end Fonolulu via our rerular air route should be prepared ty the Pistrict. You don’t need a TA number from Headquarters in this regard. I understand all other Disteds do this. To clarify more on the AEC referral situation. Usually these people travel by military aircraft to Honolulu and the States, the AEC Rep in Honolulu prepares for their travel from Kwajelein on. District prepares intra-district travel between their homes and Kwajalein chargeable to acct. 1605.37 AEC reimbursable. Their per diem is also covered under this account number. —e : et arene. ak vr ion“Opearmemo clarifies these little confusions. I did talk de Brum on this subject during his short visit to wT ey sh etweek. t Re wey I am returning lr. Bonnet's letter to you as ) Bouts and have been handled in the district. 2i = still unclear matters, please let us know. Wa Mey &, SS =2 Cu- Bonnet, AEC Honolulu LNO Kwaj Distad Rep kpeye Finance HQ SAS; aaaq Arobati Hicking DDHS, Marshalls HiCom ) [oy