‘ef

by a strong,

and at present expatriate,

leader.

These divisions are as

follows: 1) Primary Care/Public Health, 2) Secondary Care (hofpital staff),
3) Support Services, 4) Planning and Evaluation, 5) Manpower
1.

Training.

Primary Care

This division will be headed by an expatriate physiciah
health training, with a Marshallese counterpart who is a Medica]

public health training.
public health

with public
Officer with

They would be responsible for al] prgmary care and

activities.

Their

staff would consist

of

Beven medical

assistant or graduate nurse specialists, all of whom would have had public
health training.

These personnel would carry out preventive Jactivities in

areas of health education, maternal and child health, communicable diseases,
chronic diseases, environmental health and sanitation, nutriti@n, and mental
health and social problems.

The staff would also include two sdnitarians and

four secretaries.
2.

Secondary Care

.

As with most health care institutional operations, there fis need for a
large number of personnel to care for acutely il] patients[ that require
services 24 hours per day, seven days a week.

The secondary care portion of

this health care plan requires by far the greatest number of pemsonnel of the

entire health care system.

Hospital management follows a more

of administration and personnel

requirements

than do rural

lear cut plan
health

care

The manpower needs for secondary care can be

nderstood by

reference to the list of manpower requirements included at the

d of Section

components.
IX,
3.

Support Services
One of the most important components of a successful healt&

that

of

support

services.

Without

communication, even qualified personne!
satisfactorily perform their duties.

supplies,

care plan is

transpqrtation

and

in the rural areas

gre unable to

The Division of Support

Services would

be headed by an expatriate director and due to non-availability

of qualified

Marshallese personnel each of his section chiefs would also need

to initially

be expatriates.
and

Communication

Inventory.
4.

This includes the Maintenance Officer, the Transportation
Officer

and

the

Officer

in

Charge

of

Bupplies

and

Other staff include pharmacists, secretaries, repagrmen, etc.

Planning and Evaluation
The Division of Planning

and Evaluation is essential

progress and monitoring of health care functions.

The head of

for continued

Ehis division

Select target paragraph3