Dr. Siebenthal's letter points up an important practical problem of which our Committee on International Child Health has been much aware ever since we began to function. There is a need for pediatricians to help in many foreign countries and in a variety of conditions including short-term assignments.
The organization sponsoring short-term medical assignments with which I am most familiar is MEDICO. They have been quite successful in enlisting orthopods and gynecologists for one-month assignments, notably in Jordan and South Vietnam.