Lietuvos universiteto Medicinos fakulteto klinikinių katedrų studijų bazių problemos XX a. 3 dešimtmetyje
Problems of Base Hospitals for Clinical Departments of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lithuania in the 1920s

Summary/Abstract: Clinical departments of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lithuania did not have their own material facilities. Their working conditions during the period of investigation were rather difficult. The aim of the present investigation is to reveal the circumstances of establishing clinical departments in base hospitals and to highlight the actions of the faculty administration in collaboration with state institutions and community-based organizations.The Department and Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department and Clinic of Ophthalmology were founded within the Lithuanian Red Cross Society Hospital in the autumn of 1922. In 1923, the Faculty of Medicine made a legal agreement with the Lithuanian Red Cross Society that set the specification of clinical activities of both departments at the Lithuanian Red Cross Society Hospital. The Lithuanian Red Cross Society helped to improve the material facilities of the Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology during the 1920s. The Clinic of Ophthalmology operated in poorer conditions during the period, but in 1930 it moved to a new building. Three clinical departments were established in Kaunas State Hospital in 1922: Operational Surgery and Topographic Anatomy, Propaedeutics to Internal Medicine, and Skin and Venereal Diseases. In 1923, the Department and Clinic of Internal Diseases also moved to Kaunas State Hospital. The hospital was renovated, but it had insufficient premises; therefore, the inpatient units were overcrowded. In 1924, the Department and Clinic of Pediatric Diseases settled in the Children State Hospital, even though it lacked premises and there was no space to establish the Department of Surgery and Communicable Diseases. Both these state hospitals belonged to the Health Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. During the period under the present investigation, the collaboration with this institution was quite successful in terms of dealing with the problems related to the premises of the Clinics. However, communication with the Ministry of National Defence was not successful. The Faculty of Medicine failed to make an agreement with the Sanitary Department of the Ministry of National Defense, concerning the Department and Clinic of Internal Diseases. The Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases operated in the Military Hospital for a short time because of the controversy between the head of the department prof. J. Karuža and the staff of the Military Hospital. The Military Hospital hosted the Department and the Clinic of Otorhinolaryngology until 1930 and the Department Nervous and Psychiatric Diseases for a longer period.

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