A new Hadassah experimental communal health program which will offer a medical and health education program to family units is already being organized at Beth Masmil, some three miles from Jerusalem, Mrs. Samuel J. Rosensohn, national president of the women’s Zionist organization, told a press conference here today. The program is expected to cost $200, 000 in the first year of operation.
Mrs. Rosensohn revealed that the program, which is “exciting the whole of Israel,” will cover some 5, 000 persons. Approximately half of them will be organized in family units living in homes which are now being built. The remaining half will be immigrants still living in Maarbarot.
Teams of doctors, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists will be assigned to the program to offer medical service, health education, nutrition classes and club work, Mrs. Rosensohn said. In studying and working with the family as a whole, the project is aimed at “conserving what is precious in those people and not in establishing an Israeli pattern,” she added. Although the project has not yet been opened officially, nine team members — including doctors and social workers — are at work in the community.
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