Each day we learn more about the extensive humanitarian impact of the Sharps! Here is Waitstill Sharp (center) with a mobile truck x-ray unit in Prague c.1946.
The text accompanying the photo: When this mobile truck x-ray unit arrived in Prague last winter, the gift of American Relief for Czechoslovakia, it was presented to the government in an official ceremony attended by (left to right) Dr. Kruta of the ministry of health, Dr. Jos. Krakes of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Mr. Waitstill Sharp and Miss Vlasta Vraz, in charge of overseas activities of American Relief, and Dr. A. Prochazka, the Minister of Health. Since then, it has travelled throughout Silesia, examining every child, and found 60 per cent, including infants, tubercular. Now just completing the examination of Silesian miners, it will soon cover other parts of the country. Five similar trucks, equipped as clinics-on-wheel, furnishing maternal and child care to rural areas, will be purchased and sent to Czechoslovakia in 1947, from funds collected during the present campaign by American Relief for Czechoslovakia, Inc.
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The text accompanying the photo: When this mobile truck x-ray unit arrived in Prague last winter, the gift of American Relief for Czechoslovakia, it was presented to the government in an official ceremony attended by (left to right) Dr. Kruta of the ministry of health, Dr. Jos. Krakes of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Mr. Waitstill Sharp and Miss Vlasta Vraz, in charge of overseas activities of American Relief, and Dr. A. Prochazka, the Minister of Health. Since then, it has travelled throughout Silesia, examining every child, and found 60 per cent, including infants, tubercular. Now just completing the examination of Silesian miners, it will soon cover other parts of the country. Five similar trucks, equipped as clinics-on-wheel, furnishing maternal and child care to rural areas, will be purchased and sent to Czechoslovakia in 1947, from funds collected during the present campaign by American Relief for Czechoslovakia, Inc.
https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/node/752103
