Show MARSHALL PLAN FUNDS money helps fight disease in europe critics of the marshall plan could find little fault with one phase of it at least for the record showed that through this means the united states was throwing the full weight of modern medical science into Eu ropes battle against war spawned disease and malnutrition tri tion this was disclosed by ECA officials in paris through the marshall p plan I 1 a n countries and areas taking part in the european recovery program were being supplied with new laboratory and hospital equipment penicillin and streptomycin as well as radium and literally tons of other medicinal products had been put to work in E europe drope by dollars provided by the economic cooperation administration program ECA financed high vitamin foods and preparations were helping present and future generations of europeans to attain adequate health standards besides the products themselves ECA funds were enabling the recovery program participants to buy specialized machinery and and tools with which to produce their own medicines and drugs in a little more than a year ECA authorized participating countries to spend approximately 28 million dollars of aid funds for medicinal and pharmaceutical products |