European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes thursday february 6,1986 immigrants might be required to have aids exposure test los Angeles a an order requiring All per manent immigrants to the United states to be tested for exposure to aids has been signed by health and human services Secretary Otis r. Bowen a spokesman says. The proposed order would add aids to a list of medical conditions including sexually transmitted diseases that exclude immigrants from entering the United Stales at permanent residents the los Angeles times and the new York times reported wednesday. The regulation must be released for 60 Days of Public comment and must receive approval from the while House office of management and budget the los an Geles paper said citing sources it did not identify. The proposed regulation docs not specifically require immigrants to take an acquired immune deficiency syn drome antibody test but language in its preamble suggests that the Secretary should order the blood test the newspaper said. The practical effect would be to require aids antibody screening for immigrants because there is no effective routine lest to determine who has the disease that destroys its victims immune systems it said. Screening tests for the antibody to the suspected aids virus have been mandatory at the nation s blood collection centers since last March. A positive lest indicates the presence of aids antibodies. That Means the person tested has been exposed to the aids virus but it does not mean the person has aids. At least 60 percent of people with a positive antibody test carry the aids virus. Of those some May continue to carry the virus but not get sick. Health officials disagree on How Many carriers of the virus will develop symptoms. An estimated 500,000 to 600,000 people immigrate annually and 200.000 additional foreigners who already live in the United states apply for permanent status the immigration and naturalization service says. 11 us spokesman Charles Kline told the new York times that tests would be taken by emigrants in their own countries under medical screening programs in place through the ins aids which has struck More than 16,000 american since 1081 and killed about half of those leaves its victims vulnerable to infections and other diseases including can cers. The disease is most Likely to strike homosexuals Hemo Philiaus and abusers of in Citable drugs. It apparently can be spread by sexual Contact contaminated Needles and blood transfusions. Malpractice protest creates problems Tor some Massachusetts hospitals Boston up one Quarter to one half of the obstetricians and orthopaedic surgeons in Massachusetts withheld their services tuesday in a protest against soar ing Malfi Tice insurance rates in the state medical officials officials promised to use ambulances and Heli copters to transport patients to other medical centers if their doctors refuse to treat them. The new England medical Center whose doctors Are not involved in the slowdown reported a significant in crease in cases noting patients with broken Bones were transferred from hospitals where orthopaedic surgeons re fused to perform surgery. Hospital officials were also worrying about he potential financial Impact of the slowdown to protest soaring Mal practice premiums with scores of orthopaedic surgeons obstetricians and other High risk doctors refusing to care for new patients administer anaesthesia or operate. Allan l. Desrosiers president of Anna Jacques Hospi Tal in Newburyport said the Job action by eight or hoped its and four obstetricians there could result in a $3 million loss in annual Revenue for his Hospital. We re talking about a Public health crisis if we allow this thing to happen full blown said Desrosiers and we Don t want that to in a Telephone poll monday the Massachusetts Hospi Tal association found More than 250 doctors have stopped performing surgery or accepting new obstetrical patients. Spokesman Richard Pozniak said 134 Ortho pudists 96 obstetricians and about 30 other physicians specializing in neurosurgery plastic surgery and thoracic surgery were participating. But or. William Mcdermatt executive vice president of the Massachusetts medical association said the num Ber involved is much higher with up to 600 doctors taking part. We believe Many More doctors have had to do this Mcdermott said about half of the people working in obstetrics and orthopaedic surgery. The Massachusetts Hospital association urged the Doc tors to halt the protest immediately before the life and safety of the Public Are threatened. At least two dozen physicians have already moved from the state because of the average 62 percent hike in Mal practice insurance rates this year. As this protest begins to Blossom we May begin to see cases where someone arrives at an emergency mom with multiple trauma from a car Accident and a physician re fuses to perform orthopaedic surgery said Pozniak. In that Case helicopters or ambulances May be used to take the patient to another Hospital. Bodies of 2 Navy crash victims found Norfolk a. A the bodies of two Navy fliers were found tuesday in the wreckage of their attack Jet which had crashed on a North Carolina bombing Range officials said. Navy and coast guard helicopters spotted the wreck age of the a-6e intruder late monday on the dare county Range the site of four crashes in the past 13 months said it. . Cam Martin a Navy spokesman. The Jet crashed monday morning three Miles West of its target Martin said. He did not know whether the Crew men reported any trouble before the crash. A-6e it ashes in the Range on dec. 11 and in december 1984 each killed two Occam naval air station fliers and two other Oceana fliers ejected safely aug. I when their Tanker version of the a-6 crashed about two Miles North of the Range. Martin said he knew of no connection among the crashes. Calendar year 1985 was the safest year the Navy has had on record. Overall in the grand scheme of things it was a very Good year he said. Martin identified those who died in monday s crash As it. . Kevin s. Metzger 27, of Center Valley pa., the Pilot and it cmdr. Stewart d. Ivey 34, of Candler n.c., the Bombardier navigator. Both were assigned to Squadron 42 at Oceana naval air station in Virginia Ffitch. Stateside Pennsylvania state trooper charged with pocketing fines Mercer a. A a state trooper has been trooper Charles w. Havicu is 01 or coma was m Raig cd tuesday before Mercer District Justice Joseph Gabany on three counts of failure to make required Dispo s Ham thu pocketed 1278.50 he collected for three traffic violations committed by out of Szalc motorists said it. David Jungling an investigator with the state police Bureau of professional responsibility and division or inter Hall Ella who joined the Force in september 1983, was released on $1,500 Bond pending a hearing feb. 12. He was suspended without pending the outcome of his hearing and an internal investigation. Mother Teresa s missionaries open shelter in san Francisco san Francisco a the religious order led by Nobel prize winning nun Mother Teresa has quietly opened its first North american shelter with 42 novices living like the poor they try to help. The Sisters of the society of the missionaries of Charity who Wear White Indian saris instead of nuns habits or More modern apparel have opened a soup Kitchen and women s shelter in the Valencia Street neighbourhood in a three Story Tudor style building. Crash Beacon falling from Jet damages Hood of woman s car Jacksonville Fla. A the Hood of a Wom an s car was damaged when a 30-Pound crash Beacon from an air Force cargo Jet fell on it. The military has agreed to for repairs a spokesman says. The styrofoam wrapped instrument floated not Plum meted from a giant c-5 Galaxy Landing Al Jackson Vule naval air station tuesday striking Lois Bowman s car said Young a Navy spokesman. Bowman told police she heard a loud noise in her front Yard and thought a garbage can had blown Over but walked outside to find the Orange Beacon on her car s Hood. Authorities offered no immediate explanation of How the Beacon fell from the Jet. The device is used to help searchers find crashed aircraft. Paramedic gives new meaning to the term Home delivery Westminster Calif. A a fire department dispatcher talked a woman through a Home delivery then offered congratulations As the new Mother awaited the arrival of Youngblood 38, of Westminster and bar infant son were resting comfortably at Fountain Valley medical Center after the delivery said Huntington Beach fire department dispatcher Nancy Fuhrmann on tuesday. Youngblood was driving on the freeway near borne when she realized the baby was on us Way. She rushed Home and called Huntington Beach fire department paramedics. Steve Polhert 41, an 18-year Veteran dispatcher and the father of three children talked Youngblood through the delivery of her second child. A tape recording pre served the Exchange. The paramedics Are on their Way Polhert said. When the contractions Stop just relax. When the contractions Start you just Start your Pant ing breathing. You have to Youngblood suddenly cried he s out. He s out. He s out. He s that s Good Roth Crl said. Wrap him up so he does t get cold and put him on your belly until the paramedics arrive. Is it a boy or a girl it s a boy Youngblood said. Congratulations Rothert said. . Surgery May have Cost soviet woman 6 months san Diego a a soviet Sailor who underwent surgery in san Diego wants to return to her ship but red tape May Force her to Fly Back to the soviet Union and lose six months officials say. Svetlana Prokudin 26, was in Good condition tuesday at Scripps memorial Hospi Tal said Hospital spokeswoman Diane Yone. Prokudin a food worker aboard the so Viet trawler in Evnyl was airlifted 200 Miles to san Diego by a coast guard Heli copter monday after complaining of severe abdominal pains. At Scripps it was found she had suffered a miscarriage in the first few weeks of pregnancy. A doctor remove the dead fetus Yone said. The coast guard cannot return Prokudin to her ship because of . Regulations said it. John Filirowicz a coast guar information officer. Our Job is to make sure they get medi Cal treatment then that s where our Job ends Filirowicz said. The ship is not allowed to Dock in san Diego because the port Home to much of the Navy s Western Fleet is closed to soviet vessels. Yone said Prokudin is distraught an was on the phone pleading with the soviet embassy in Washington on tuesday to pull strings so she could return to the fishing and research boat. She says she s physically feeling Fin and Able to go bade to work Yohe said. If Prokudin flew Home she would lose the six months she would earn by stay ing on Board for the test of the voyage. The in Evnyl has been at sea about five weeks and is scheduled to Dock Early next month in Vancouver British Columbia Yone said. Prokudin has become a celebrity in Sandiego. She has received Flowers and stuffed animals from people who read about her local newspapers the spokeswoman said. She was real surprised that she was Fathe newspaper Yohe said. She thought it was kind of
