[The role of the military feldsher in routine epidemiological health surveillance]

The army medical attendants perform an active role in the sanitary-epidemiological control of military units. The supervision of sanitation situation of the barracks and other quarters, as well as the objects of food service, the bath and laundry service can perfectly be realized by medical attendants, the more so that instrumentation and laboratory methods of this supervision are rather simple. Sometimes the execution of this work is troubled by unsatisfactory training of the active enlisted medical attendants on the questions of military hygiene and military epidemiology. It can be explained by the fact that as a rule civilian medical schools have a scarce training on this matter. In the authors' opinion it is possible to avoid this limitation by reformation of one of the existing military medical divisions in civil educational establishments into a military medical school for medical attendants.