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Comprehensive health care would encompass primary, secondary, and tertiary
care, as herein defined.

Such comprehensive care would include the

necessary infrastructure, including communication and transportation
capability. The health care program would give special emphasis to the
Getection and treatment of any injury, illness, or condition that may be
the result, directly or indirectly, of the nuclear weapons testing

program.

.The contractor should undertake to insure that, to the extent possible,
the services and activities to be provided under the proposed plan be
integrated to achieve maximum efficiency.

In particular, the health

care functions of the Government of the Marshail Islands should be
coordinated with the health care program established pursuant to the
Statute.

this plan.

The contractor will be required to provide cost estimates for

(>) Although the Interior Department's preliminary view is
that a plan for comprehensive health care for all of the Marshalls
exceeds the boundaries of the statute, it asks the contractor also to
develop an integrated, comprehensive health care program for all atolls
and islands of the Marshalls. As the statute provides, the extent of
care to be provided would be appropriate to the "situation, condition,
and needs of the individual atoll peoples”. The contractor will be
required to provide costs estimates for this plan.
(c) Although the Interior Department's preliminary view is
that a program for health care that is more extensive than that outlined
in (a) above, and less extensive than that outlined in (b), exceeds the
boundaries of the statute, it asks the contractor to develop a health
care program for the Marshalls along the following lines:

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The Interior Department would initiate promptly implementation of a

comprehensive health care plan, including health evaluation, of all of
the peoples of Rongelap, Utirik, Bikini, and Enewetak, and would provide
them primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Access to secondary and

tertiary medical care would be afforded by appropriate communication and
transportation capabilities (that is, woice and visual communication
with the medical center at Majuro, and emergency evacuation capabilities),
as part of the comprehensive health care program.
Concurrently, the Secretary would begin to establish a basic primary
health care capability on other inhabited atolls. This basic primary
health care would generally consist of a trained aide, a dispensary, and
communication and transportation capabilities. Subsequent to the health
care evaluation of the four named atolls, the Secretary would carry out

ea health evaluation of the peoples of other inhabited atolis in the
Marshall Islands. The extent to which additional health care services
may be included would be determined by the information obtained from the
health evaluation of the peoples of these atolls. The Secretary would
carry out the health evaluation at other atolls in a sequential manner,
to be determined following consultation with representatives of the
people of the atolls and the government of the Marshall Islands. The
contractor will be required to provide cost estimates for this plan.

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