Organizacja i działalność wojskowej służby zdrowia i weterynaryjnej w Łódzkim Okręgu Wojskowym w latach 1945-1946
Organization and activities of the Military Health Service and the Military Veterinary Service the Lodz Military District in 1945-1946

Summary/Abstract: The article describes the organization and activities of two military medical services, which functioned in the Lodz Military District in 1945-1946. The first of these was the military health service, whose main task was to prevention and treatment of soldiers. Military health service in the Lodz Military District had three military garrison hospitals in Czestochowa, Kielce and Radom, district military hospital in Lodz, military sanatorium in Busko and medical personnel in military units. At the end of World War II in Lodz were created also several military medical school, so that this city became the main center of military medical education of the Polish Army. The article discusses the organization and activities of the other medical service working in Lodz Military District, which was a military veterinary service. Its main task was to care for horses in military units and their treatment. For this purpose, in this military district was formed in the summer of 1945, the 15 District Veterinary Ambulance in Wrząca near Lutomiersk. It was disbanded in November 1946, together with the liquidation of the Lodz Military District. In the first years after the war the main command positions in both services took many officers of the Red Army. They were gradually substituted for the Polish officers, but it was a long process. Both the military services had a small staff, which – in spite of many difficulties – well fulfill its tasks and contributed to improving the health of forces stationed in the area of that district.

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