time alloted.
However, two important commitments were not completed or were
completely cancelled.
coverage.
The included:
A) adequate (in numbers) pediatric
Dr. Sullivan did a superb job on the patients that she was able
to see but many children, especially in the study group at Majuro, were not
seen.
I have promised the people that we would include a "baby doctor" in
our September-October survey.
.period.
These were not in the original plans for that
B) The Health Education Program which was an important and integral
part of our public relations program could not be started during this survey
due to insufficient time and staff.
Both of these problems need to be ad-
dressed indepth during the next survey.
1)
Additional areas of interest include:
the reimbursement "policy" for the Bikinians, needs immediate written
Department of Energy clarification.
2)
Since the medical berthing spaces
for staff and patients are inadequate we will need to restrict the scope of
the medical examinations and the number of patients to be seen in future
surveys.
3)
I would recommend that no more than 8 staff be housed in hold #2.
The crew of the Liktanur IL as
Master, did a fine job.
presently constituted, with a licensed
I would strongly recommend that this same team
continue to support the medical surveys for the remainder of the contract.