Dr. Le Vinh Can Transcript, March 19, 1968

Dr. Le Vinh Can, a North Vietnamese Army surgeon, describes his defection to South Vietnam after becoming disillusioned with the communist government’s harsh control and poor living conditions. He explains that many wounded soldiers in his North Vietnamese medical unit died from shortages of medicine, blood, and supplies, and that evacuation of the injured was often delayed for days, making treatment nearly impossible.