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Show Program Launched To Aid Better Health For Indians Vigorous . efforts to improve health and . sanitation facilities ' among 2000 Navajo and Ute In. i dians in Grand and San Juan coun- ! ties will be' pursued unremittingly Congressman Henry Aldous Dixon ' (R-Utah). promised today. j "I have learned that the .situa- j tion, especially among Indian ' school children, .is Serious, he said. "I was told by the superintendent superinten-dent of schools at Monticello that many Indian pupils who come to school are seriously in need of health supervision and that Buch supervision is necessary not only for their own good but also for the comfort and health of the other children." He said he talked a few days ago with Mr. Eugene Lehr, of the ' Division of Indian Health Medical Services Bureau of the Public Health Service', who told him a program for training Indian practical prac-tical nurs.es is underway and that the fourth course for Indian nurses was just completed at Phoenix, Arizona. "Mr. Lehr also told me that there had been rather recently a serious outbreak of dysentery among the Ute Indians in San Juan County," the Congressman said. To Establish Center "He also informed me' that at a recent meeting of the Utah Health Department, it was decided that efforts should be made immediately im-mediately to establish a local health center in Monticello for San Juan and Grand counties." Rep. Dixon also noted that the State Health Department is after more data about such thines a? professional services now available to the Indians and the possibility of sharing costs with the Federal government. The Congressman said that in addition to placing this problem squarely before the top officials of the country, he' is determined to check results of his visit with Mr. Lehr and to cooperate with State and Federal authorities in their expressed desire to set up a health center in the area concerned. con-cerned. . |