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title: When Sick, Come to the Dispensaries and You Will Receive Proper Medical Care
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/when-sick-come-to-the-dispensaries-1965-1969/
description: A line drawing shows a medical worker with a red-cross armband examining a villager while a mother holds a child and a man in a headband stands with folded
section: Collection
---

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[![When Sick, Come to the Dispensaries and You Will Receive Proper Medical Care, 1965 US poster: A line drawing shows a medical](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/when-sick-come-to-the-dispensaries-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/when-sick-come-to-the-dispensaries-1965-1969.jpg)

# When Sick, Come to the Dispensaries and You Will Receive Proper Medical Care

A line drawing shows a medical worker with a red-cross armband examining a villager while a mother holds a child and a man in a headband stands with folded arms beneath a tree. A large red cross and a one-line invitation, 'If anyone is ill, please come to the dispensary and you will be cared for', fill the lower half. The red cross carries the credibility of a medical emblem to the offer of care.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
NẾU AI ĐAU, XIN CỨ ĐẾN PHÒNG CHẨN BỊNH CÁC BẠN SẼ ĐƯỢC SĂN-SÓC.

SP-995
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
IF ANYONE IS ILL, PLEASE COME TO THE DISPENSARY; YOU WILL BE CARED FOR.

SP-995
```

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