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Comprehensive health care would encompass primary, secondary, and tertiary
care, as defined in point 5 above. Such comprehensive care would
include the necessary infrastructure, including communication and transportation
capability.
The health care program would give special emphasis to the
detection and treatment of any injury, illness, or condition that may be
the result, directly or indirectly, of the nuclear weapons testing
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contractor should undertake to insure that, to the extent possible,
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 Marshall Islands should be
‘--rdinated with the health care program established pursuant to the =t’.?tf?
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Although the Interior Department’s preliminary view is
tr,at a plan for comprehensive health care for all of the Marshalls
-...-c5s the boundaries of the statute, it proposes to ask the contractor
“ ;: to develop an integrated, comprehensive health care program for all
~zQIls and islands of the MarshalIs.
As the statute provides, the
:.~tof care to be provided would be appropriate to the “situation,
c~;,ditionr and needs of the individual atoll peoples”.

(c) Although the Interior Department’s preliminary view is
that a program for health care that is more extensive than that outlined
-n (a) above, and less extensive than that outlined in (b), exceeds the
boundaries of the statute, it proposes to ask the contractor to develop
a health care program for the Marshalls along the following lines:
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Ynterior Depar@ent
would initiate promptly implementation of a
including
health evaluation, of all of
.~iF,rehensive
health care plan,
.:.=peoples of Rongelap, Utirik, Bikini, and Enewetak, and would provide
thsn primary, secondary, and tertiary care. Access to secondary and
~.~~iary medical care would be afforded by appropriate communication and
transportation capabilities (that is, voice and visual communication
‘“:+h the medical center at Majuro, and emergency evacuation capabilities) ,
QS part of the comprehensive health care program.
would begin
to establish a basic primary
‘Concurrently, the secretary
health care cap~ility
on other inhabited atolls.
This basic primary
consist
of a trained aide, a dispensary, and
‘:e.althcare would generally
.mununication and transportation capabilities.
Subsequent to the health
zzre evaluation of the four named atolls, the Secretary would carry out
a health evaluation of the peoples of other inhabited atolls in the
~!irshall
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 detefined
following
consultation
with
representatives.
of the
people of the atolls and the government of the Marshall Islands.

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