one of the units at work on the front, the reports point out that with its headquarters at Kweiyang, it has more than 100 rescue companies each of which is composed of one doctor, two nurses, four assistants. and 10 stretcher bearers. There are only 176 doctors working for the China Red Cross and there is an urgent need for more medicines, too. There are 20 foreign doctors who have gladly placed themselves at the disposal of the China Red Cross.
The Society needs U.S. $300,000 every month for buying medicines alone. It must possess 175 trucks travelling about 300,000 kilometres during the same period. For the maintenance of these trucks alone USS. $370,000 is needed monthly, it is pointed out. It is strongly urged that besides the medicines coming through the Burma highway, the Chinese people in general must also contribute medicines.
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