European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday november 29, 19bb the stars and stripes Paga 27 . Considers use of military hospitals to treat aids victims by Mil Freudenheim new York times state and local health authorities arc assessing partly vacant military hospitals for their potential As treatment centers for thousand of  drug users and aids a Fjells nationally civilian hospitals have room for Only 250,000 of the 6.5 million americans who Are addicted to cocaine amphetamines heroin or other drugs said Otis r. Bowen the Secretary of health and human services. Intravenous drug users Are the fastest growing group of patients with aids a disease hat is also transmitted by sexual Contact. The centers for disease control Esti mates there Are 1.5 million americans with the aids virus. Health experts believe most people with the virus eventually contract aids and Many aids patients eventually re quire hospitalization. At last count 34,641 americans have died from acquired immune deficiency syndrome. In new York drug treatment pro Grams have been overwhelmed. Health officiate said some applicants have had to wait six months. The anti drug Bill recently passed by Congress and signed by president Reagan is supposed to come from budget cuts or new taxes. Hospital treatment for a patient suf Fering from aids or drug abuse can Cost up in s1,000 a Day in a major City health officials said. The defense department has agreed to evaluate the roughly 100 military hospitals in the United slates to see whether unused space could be made available. The evaluation was ordered last month in a memorandum signed by Bowen Deputy defense Secretary Wil Liam Howard Taft in and attorney Gen eral Dick Thorburgh who Heads the National drug policy Board space in still More military hospitals May become available As a 12-member to today superstition an to tuesday s programs commission prepares a list of bases and properties to be closed for Bug Clary Rea sons. In some slates authorities also arc looking Al underused veterans hospitals. These arc operated by the veterans administration a separate Cabinet depart ment. . Surgeon a sacral c. Everett Koop said some Beds in military hospitals could be available to intravenous drug users who have aids. The Public health service which Koop Heads would help local Community agencies operate the unused Beds and wards in military hospitals. We be got these big treatment facilities Many of which Are grossly underutilized said Thomas a Burke the chief of staff of the department of health and human services. Burke said space might be made Avail Able in such places As the Philadelphia naval Hospital where several noon have been closed for years Fitsimons medical Center outside Denver and let iceman army medical Center in san Francisco. Defense department officials said however that there would be problems in making the space available Gordon Dowery director of the office of defense medical facilities Saia the Philadelphia Hospital has serious build ing code deficiencies that were allowed to develop As officials debated whether to close the institution. Fitsimons and let Learnan hospitals Are teaching hospitals. Fitsimons has 432 Beds and on average 333 patients. Kellerman has 363 Beds and on average 282 patients he said. The plan to convert space in military hospitals la civilian use has Strong Politi Cal attraction its supporters said. For members or Congress concerned about employment and payrolls in their districts the drug treatment centers which would remain Federal property under the defense department could provide jobs to replace those lost when a base is closed for budgetary reasons. Wednesday s programs our chnspnud7hj hic Nuj 0730 jul in h074s  och Lulu not new Ipp Wing m u Rovil Tupts Ron Uncil Lottici. 8tir Rwy minty to gym. 8 Lur thu Ohof Seth to inv Tui Vid Jim smear. .-1030 Baafi  1 town to Ima h my swing Imti much. . 1100  Tyrh Jlyle. A Vav Al Mumm kit. Ism  1900 thu Cotta Law at1�intt Annj a Butoi Loo id 11 Riff off fit in i Bun it 8wnng a cob Kab Oil in worm  n to Chi Aikui Norw. 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