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Show You Can Spare a Dime The $64-questlou is a piker compared com-pared to that facing a person stricken with infantile paralysis. Could you afford to pay $35 a day for four months If you were stricken by poho? And the $35 a day rate is by no means unusun) In treating polio patients, particularly particu-larly respiratory cases. By reason of this h gh cost of treatment, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis needs the contributions of every citizen of this community In order to carry on its i dentins battle against paralysis. Typical of such high case costs are thiso where care und treatment aie paid for by locul and county chapters of tfic foundation. Charges Charg-es inr lu lc $24 dally for nurses, $6 for hospital room and $5 for Incidentals. Inciden-tals. The itemization does not include in-clude physician's fee, which also, of course, comes from the March of Dimes. The expensive cost of hospital tieatment and prolonged care of such patients Is paid for by the county and supplemented with funds from the National Foundation's March of Dimes in fulfillment of the pledge that no one stricken w.th polio need go untreated for lack of money, regardless of age, i ace, creed or color. Polio is one of the costliest diseases dis-eases In the medical books. Few families, even with substantial Incomes, In-comes, can afford hospital, doctor bills, nurses' fees and additional costs of long-term convalescent care. Local chapters of the National Foundation, with money raised through the annual March of Dimes for this purpose, stand ready throughout the nation to offer financial fin-ancial assistance whenever the disease dis-ease strikes. If chapters run low on funds or exhau.se them quickly for a single emcijency case or for epidemic needs as they did last year in 35 states, nnd other less seriously affected af-fected areas, national headquarters sends sums to meet the community's communi-ty's bill. The National Foundation, supported sup-ported entirely by the March of Dimes, also finances scientific medical med-ical research and education of pro- fesslonal personnel to staff hospitals hospi-tals and treatment centers throughout through-out the country. Can you afford to spend $35 a day for treatment? You can afford a dime. |
