SPLITTING HEADACHE.

Comments on the shortage of medicines and medical instrument in the Soviet Union in 1990. Implications on medical care in the Soviet Union; View that the pharmaceutical industry is collapsing more quickly than the rest of industry; Fact that the poor quality of vaccines have discouraged many Muscovites from getting regular inoculations against diseases such as diphtheria; Mention of the infection with the AIDS virus through the use of unsterile needles; Fact that the Soviet state allocates only 5 percent of its budget to health care.