HC Deb 22 March 1948 vol 448 cc2566-7
36. Mr. Mott-Radclyffe

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is satisfied that adequate medical services are available to the staffs of His Majesty's diplomatic and consular posts in the U.S.S.R., Poland, Hungary, Roumania and Bulgaria.

Mr. Mayhew

My right hon. Friend fully recognises the importance of this question. The position at Moscow is that there is a British resident doctor on the staff of our Embassy who has at his disposal a well-equipped consulting room with a stock of drugs. At Warsaw, in co-operation with the United States Embassy, we are about to set up a small nursing home with a resident doctor, the expenses to be shared by the Foreign Office and the State Department. Small stocks of important drugs are kept at our Missions at Budapest, Sofia and Bucharest and we are looking into the possibility of making arrangements similar to those at Warsaw.