Media item

News from Indonesia: the work of the Dutch Public Health Service

Week number 46-21

Newsreels in which Dutch subjects of a certain week are presented.

Type:
video
Length:
01:48
Publication date:
1 May 1946
User:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Creator:
Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator)
Source:
WEEKNUMMER462-HRE00013941

The Dutch Public Health Service provides medical care for the native people of the Dutch East Indies. SHOTS: - a long line of people walks towards a hospital(?) "somewhere in the inland"; a nurse gives them a number(?); - medical staff from the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies do several polyclinic tasks: children are examined; injections are given; etc.; - some patients light a sigaret; a large group of people wait for their turn; nuns help and assist the doctors and tuck in the bedridden patients.