The Denver Jewish news., 1924-06-05
HADASSAH MEDICAL OR
GANiZATION IN PALESTINE

There are three great divisions Of the
Hadassah Medical Organization In
Palestine.
1. Hospitals. ii. Extra hospital ac-
tivities. III. Infant Welfare work.
There are four general hospitals,
one each in Jerusalem Tel-Aviv, Haifa
and Snfcd, and special malaria hos
pital in Tiberins. To all of these
hospitals, dispensarlcs and laboratories
are adjoined. They have obstetric,
pcdintrlc, internal diseases and oph-
thalmAiogic departments and dispen-
sarics. In Jerusalem Tel-Aviv and
Safcd, there is also surgical depart
..ant, and In Jerusalem, in addition n
archaeological dispensary, an outside
obstetric service and Roentgcn La
bOratory. The bed capacity of the
Hadassah hospitals in the whole coun-
try is 303. In Hebron and Tiberias,
there are general hospitals. To the
Jerusalem hospital there is attached a
Nurses Trimming school for 10 pupils.
The extra hospital activities are for
inspection work. medical care of the
immigrants, rural work in the col
Onics and Kuppat Holm work. The
rural work consists of a medical service
more or less complete physicians,
druggists, midwife or nurse) in the
Al f,.l In N GnIilnns
The Infant Welfare work is support
ed by Hadassah. the Women's Zionist
Organization of America, partly
through collections, partly through the
gift of Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan Straus.
The funds donated by Mr.. and Mrs.
Straus are used for Installation and
equipment those collected by the
Women's Organization, for current ex-
penses.
| What are tho needs of the Hadassah
Medical Organization? 1t must have
such an increase of its budget in all
three of its departments as TO enable
1t TO expand normally. 1t needs more
beds, especially for obstetric cases. 1t
needs specialists in half II dozen de
partments. 1t needs surgical depart
its worn equipment and many additions
thereto 1t needs the extension of the
Infant Welfare Board, its outside OBJ
stetric service. Its medical school in
spection service ought to he extended
TO every Jewish child. Dental clinics
ought to be created in every centre, in
addition to the single one now in oper-
alton in Tel-Aviv.
Its great and outstanding need is
funds for buildings. Only two build
ings occupied by it were built for the
purpose for which they are used: the
two ROthschild hospitals, the one at
Jerusalem and the one at Safcd. The
other hospitals are housed in insult
able private dwellings, for which high
rents are paid. Even the Rothschild
hospital building ut Jerusalem is in
adequate to the demands upon ii,
though two large wards have recently
been added, so that Il building de
| signed in 1878 for 40 patients is trans
formed into one capable of receiving
Ia. There still are only sheds for
the enormously large dispensary work
required. Important dispensary work
must be left undOne because there is
no space available. Dispensary pa
tlents are exposed TO rain and sleet
because there is no waiting room. The
nurses have no rest and cloak room.
The administrative work suffers be-
cause it is crowded into an unbear-
ably small space. The obstetric ward
is half as large as the records of re
jected cases show it should be- The
nurses have no proper house in any Of
the centres The hospital ut Tel-Aviv
cannot be kept up TO even "a mod
crate standard because of the hous-
ing. And above all, tuberculosis
sanitarium is crying need.