Medical+Care

Medical care in the Japanese internment camps was very important but a lot of times it also hurt the patient and the treatment was very painful. The medical care was primative and the doctors who went above and beyond for their patients were often underpayed. The all volunteer group of doctors, nurses, and dentists were paid as much as $19 in one day. The camps did not have all of the nessecities of basic medical care. There also weren't enough perosnnel for all of the internees. At the [|Manzanar] Camp there were 7[|doctors] for 10,000 internees. Finally, there had to be special sanitary precautions taken to prevent diesease epidemics. Cost wasn't a problem for the patients. The care was free unless you needed special medicines or treatments. If that was the case, you had to cover the cost. The precautions of the camps were necessary but they did not always work. As soon as the internees entered the camp they were given a series of very painful shots. Age did not matter.

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These shots helped most but some diesease epidemics spread anyway. [|Typhoid,] [|Tuberculosis], and [|Dysentery] were common at all of the camps. Among children, chicken pox and measels were common. At the camp in Granada, Colorado [|polio] was common. Also at the camp in Arkansas [|Malaria] was common. Medical effects of the camps are still felt today all around the world. The mental and physical trama of the camps is still felt today among former internnes and their children. Most Nisei were permenatly altered in their attitude. There has been found to be a twice greater risk for heart diesease and premature death among former internees.

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