>I found this in google groups, posted by D. Erlich in 1994.  It is
>splitted [sic] in three posts:

>Reference:
>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/0f6033a63...
>Reference:
>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/332298f6c...
>Reference:
>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scientology/msg/472698d3c...

>(I couldn't find an html version online, so I html'd one for easier
>reading at http://www.xenu-directory.net/accounts/anon19940907.html)

>Excerpt:

>We went to the sick bay which had, I think, eight children in it.
>These children were all being mistreated. I do not mean medically,
>only, I mean mistreated in the sense of abused.
>I observed the following:

>1) Sick children were being diagnosed by the MO; as it turned out they
>were misdiagnosed by the MO.
>2) [The son] was forced to work while ill. He was supposed to be
>looking after the other sick children.
>3) The children were not being sent to a doctor - for reasons of FP
>[financial planning].
>4) The space was filthy and inadequate.
>5) The sick children had no beds; they were lying on a concrete floor.
>6) There was no adult supervision of these ill children.
>7) Children suffering from different contagious diseases were all in
>the same space.
>8) The children were dirty and un-hygienic.

>We talked to the MO at length. [The son], it turned out, had complained
>of other symptoms (sore head, eyes and throat). The MO said he only had
>one sore in his mouth and was not sick. Apparently when he asked the MO
>if he could lie down, the MO said he was not sick and had to stay on
>post, looking after the other children.  I also discovered that the MO
>had received no money from ASHO for the care of ASHO children and
>therefore there was no money to send the kids to the doctor.  All he was
>doing was giving the children vitamins for their illnesses.

>The "sick bay" was an approximately 5 x 18 foot screened off porch area
>outdoors, with a concrete floor.  One of the children, a three-year-old,
>was lying on a very thin kitchen mat, on the floor.  Others were
>bare-foot on the concrete floor.

>The MO told us that if [mother] wanted her son to go to the doctor,
>she would have to go to ASHO and put in a PO[?].  I told him that all
>the children who had not seen a doctor should do so, as he was not
>qualified to diagnose illness.  At this point he became antagonistic and
>said they did not need a doctor and he did not want to discuss it
>further. I said to [mother] that the conditions in the sick bay were
>atrocious and if he [the Medical Officer] was not going to do anything
>about it, I was going to call the Board of Health.

>The MO said, of course, that what I was doing was a suppressive act,
>as indeed, it is per policy. I replied that what he was doing to those
>children was a suppressive act, and left. We went to ASHO to put in a
>rush PO. After waiting, I became concerned about [the son] and told his
>mother that I would pay for his medicine and that they could pay me
>later. Doctor Victoria Sammler diagnosed [son] as having Vincent's

>Sad story. I understand that the person who sent this account is
>certainly no longer a member of the CoS today (and probably neither
>at the time it was sent).  

>MO stands for Medical Officer. What is the scientology definition of a
>"Medical Officer"? Is it someone that has the competence, and a license
>to diagnose and treat people? What is a PO?

>Ray.