Antall József szerk.: Orvostörténeti közlemények 54. (Budapest, 1970)
TANULMÁNYOK - Zsebők Zoltán: Visszaemlékezés a magyar egészségügy megszervezésére, 1945-1948
államfő és a miniszterek voltak jelen, így a kultuszminiszter és az építésügyi miniszter, hanem ott voltak a Ganz gyári munkások a MAVAG munkásai és mindazok, akik segítségünkre jöttek, hogy a romokból ismét a beteg embereket, a magyar népet szolgáló intézmények legyenek. Summary Professor Zoltán Zsebők worked from 1945 in the Ministry of Welfare as political under-secretary of state at the time of the coalition-government of Tildy. In the next year he became the head of two departments in the Ministry of Education: the departments of higher education and that of science. He participated in the reorganization of the Hungarian Public Health. Author gives account of the hard time of organizing and pecuniary troubles and even of the spectacularer actions. Among others he was succeeding to buy 100 X-ray apparates, pharmaceutical products, bandages, instruments, linen and even chocolate originating from the superfluous equipment of the US-army. His steady work was yet the rebuilding, the reorganization and struggles for public health, to win over the epidemics which spread rapidly in the distroyed country. Their arrest claimed efforts; help came not once from the Sovjet Army. Great tasks were waiting for him in the Ministry of Education: the reorganizing of the universities. It begun with rubble clearance and was continued by the process of construction. The real organizing work could follow only after these: the filling up of 44 university chairs till 1948 meant that he had to put straight one appointment every two weeks. This remembrance of individual tone deals not only the affairs of reorganization, but polemics and droll situations too, which are seeming today of no importance. Author doesn't give account of a summarizing picture of the Hungarian policy of public health, only a few details of it, but these details are able to let feel the substance of the athmosphere of this period.
