Wednesday, October 9, IQSb/The Battalion/Page 7 ■■■■■■
Students unite to demand
better gynecological care
| By SANDRA SUTPHEN
Reporter
WWe must demand proper gyne
cological care and access to birth
control."
••A flyer with this message was dis
tributed throughout the Texas A&M
/ University campus as publicity for a
meeting held in the MSC Lounge
; uesday night.
■The meeting was held in response
to an article that appeared in the
September 25 edition of The Battal
ion.
he article dealt with the cancella
tion of some health services at A.P.
Bejitel Health Center— particularly
the lack of a gynecologist on staff.
I; kbout 50 students and faculty re
sponded to the flyer by attending
the meeting.
^■hree students — Katie Cokinos,
Anti Robbins and Emily Lee — orga
nized the meeting because they said
the health center should serve the
nepds of the students, and more
than 12,000 of these students are
i nprnen.
® he group’s organizers said they
Heel there should be ready access to
I gynecological care at A&M without
^Bng to go outside the University
1 10$ private doctor or clinic.
Khe health center has been send
ing students who need gynecological
care or birth control to Planned Par
enthood because of understaffing
and unwillingness of doctors to han
dle birth control cases, Robbins said.
Cost is a problem with students
Organizers of the group
have joined with MSC
Great Issues to provide
speakers at Rudder foun
tain to bring the health
care problem to the stu
dents Thursday begin
ning at 11 a.in.
having to go elsewhere for these
services, said Sarah Hambrick, a ju
nior psychology major.
One member of the audience
mentioned that the cost of a private
doctor may be prohibitive when both
the husband and wife are students.
The health center does offer some
gynecological care, but it must be a
specific problem, Robbins said. No
examinations are given.
Officials at the health center have
been reluctant to talk about the sub
jects of birth control and gynecologi
cal care, Cokinos said.
Robbins said the group’s organiz
ers are not affiliated with any orga
nization. They are simply students
concerned about what they see as a
problem with health care at the Uni
versity in general, Robbins added.
It seems as if health center offi
cials are trying to make a moral
judgement, Hambrick said.
“ The point is that it is descrimina-
tion,” said Gregg Cantrell, a doctoral
student in History.
The group decided to take action.
Cokinos and Robbins plan to write
and submit a bill to the student sen
ate on the topic of improper health
care at A&M.
Ideas such as petitions, picketing
and a “silent march,” which is a mid
night march to President Vandiver’s
house, were suggested as a way to
educate the students and show stu
dent concern over the problem.
Cokinos and Robbins have united
with MSC Great Issues to bring
speakers to speak at Rudder foun
tain Thursday to bring the health
care problem to the students because
this is a topic which many students
may not be aware of , Robbins said.
Three A&M representatives of
the National Organization of
Women (NOW) suggested that the
group unite with NOW to get the
benefits of being a campus organiza
tion.
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Tests show cattle, human blood similar
Associated Press
LUBBOCK — The need for hu
man blood donations could be dras-
,1 ticallv reduced some day if Dr.
] , |i„ Mario Feola’s hypothesis about cattle
|i, s : - blood proves valid.
^■or the past eight years, the pro
fessor of thoracic surgery at Texas
Tech University Health Sciences
ll l ta Center has inched along with his de
velopment of a method of purifying
cattle hemoglobin for human use,
and he says within a few' months it
should be ready for testing in hu-
!(l[ mans.
| “jf\ll hemoglobins are tite same
ted uui nutre or less,” Feola said, so the
beality of the cattle hemoglobin, if it
works in humans, will be that there
Ivillbe no need for typing and cross
of blood m .in enu i gent \
Thl cattle hemoglobin, mixed with a
salike solution, would be injected in
the recipient and would pass
through the system, providing build
ing blocks for the body’s replenish
ment of the blood supply, he said.
Theoretically, emergency medical
technicians could carry powdered
hemoglobin in ambulances and give
transfusions at the scene, Feola said.
Also, “we destroy all viruses in the
blood, so there is no danger of dis
ease being transmitted, so we elimi
nate that risk,” Feola said.
He believes the cattle hemoglobin
will be accepted.
“Right now people are afraid of
human blood,” he said, “because of
the fatal diseases such as AIDS that
can be transmitted through the
blood.”
Some other doctors in the United
States are trying to create the hemo
globin powder from human blood,
he said, but he considers the bovine
blood better.
“It transports oxygen better than
human hemoglobin,” Feola said.
From the results of the experi
ments in animals, Feola is optimistic
about the bovine hemoglobin’s use
in humans.
In his recent experiments with lab
animals, Feola said the bovine hemo
globin has been working.
He has drained two-thirds of the
blood volume from different species
such as mice, cats and monkeys, and
then injected them with the cattle
hemoglobin. He said all have done
well.
“They’re surviving forever,” he
said of the animals. “They start re
building their own blood much fas
ter than with just a saline solution.”
Within a week, the animals have
rebuilt the two-thirds of their blood
they lost, he said.
Feola and a lab in Boston are in
the process of designing new tech
nology that would create the cattle
hemoglobin on a large scale for hu
mans, he said.
Feola said he can make only one
liter of the hemoglobin at a time us
ing his present method, but with the
new technology he says he hopes to
produce 100 liters a day.
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