Bias Is Denied

DETROIT (UPI)- The Detroit Commission on Community Relations (CCR) Monday accused the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor of racial discrimination in hiring medical personnel. The hospital denied the charges. The CCR filed a complaint with the Michigan Civil Rights Commission and charged that as of May, 1968, the hospital had no Negro physicians on its clinical staff and only six Negroes on the medical faculty. "We have negotiated with the University of Michigan for 11 years," commission secretarydirector Richard V. Marks said, - 1 "and have failed to achieve any substantial change in the unequal pattern of opportunity for nonwhite students at University Hospital." M a r k s said only three Negroes have interned at the hospital since 1959 and there have been only 26 Negro residency appointments since 1959. Dr. A. C. Kerlikowski, director of the hospital, said "we have tried every way possible to obtain qualified Negroes for the hospital. The internship program is in a national plan under which the interns choose the hospital."