Prethodno priopćenje
https://doi.org/10.58565/vda.3.1.18
Health care in Yugoslavian Refugee Camp in Egypt and their struggle with epidemics
Maja Kovačević Kuzmanić
; Državni arhiv u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The State Archives in Split houses the entire collection of preserved documents on Yugoslavian Refugee Camp in Egypt. Although they were far away from their homes, the refugees in Egypt soon organised their lives. The Central Committee of the camp managed it through six different departments, including the Department of Health and Hygiene. The author of the article describes the conditions in which refugees had to live and problems arising from living in the tents, thus affecting their hygiene and health care. Issues such as shortage of water and soap, rat infestation, few and scarce medical supplies, shortage of medical staff, etc. resulted in poor health conditions and the overall health care. The aim is to point out the connection between hygienic conditions and health care conditions with the health state of refugees, especially in connection with the occurrence of epidemics and the mortality rate. They fought with several epidemics: influenza, pertussis, measles, scabies, etc. In comparison, the mortality rate of infants in 1944 in the Refugee Camps with 28 000 people and in all of Croatia with over 4 million people in 2020 was almost the same. When we compare mortality rates in the Camps in 1944 and 1945, it can be concluded that with better organization of health care, more doctors and nurses, more medicine and better hygiene standards, the effect was a lower mortality rate.
Ključne riječi
refugees; camps; Egypt; hygiene; health care; epidemics; mortality rate
Hrčak ID:
293983
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Datum izdavanja:
24.2.2023.
Posjeta: 333 *