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Medical care and health issues

Medical and dental facilities were for the most part inadequate, lacking in both equipment and staff. Doctors and nurses were overworked, and treatment was often substandard as well as delayed. Camp inmates recall outbreaks of food poisoning, tuberculosis and dysentery epidemics, and preventable deaths of patients and newborns.

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Sarah Sato Segment 18 (ddr-densho-1000-81-18)
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Treatment in concentration camp hospital
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Contracting pneumonia in Jerome concentration camp: description of medical facilities
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