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...injured Vietnamese children arrived in Boston on Wednesday to undergo surgery arranged by the Committee on Responsibility (COR) whose sponsors include 12 Harvard Faculty members...
Since plastic surgery is usually executed in several stages spanning up to four months, the children will convalesce between operations at a private home in Brookline, said Dr. Frank Ervin, assistand professor of Psychiatry and COR spokesman...
...children cannot be treated in Vietnam, COR National Chairman Dr. Herbert Needleman said, because of the lack of specialists, hospital beds, antibiotics, and nursing care. There is one doctor per 100,000 civilians in rural areas, with two or three children in each hospital bed, he said...
...COR negotiated directly with the South Vietnamese government to arrange the children's transfers. Dr. Neddleman said that they are currently arranging a "procedural document to short cut the considerable red tape involved" with the Saigon Ministries of Health...
...COR has no government affiliation. Needleman said that the U.S. budgets only $34 million per year for civilian medical aid in Vietnam, less than half the amount spent per day on military...