The 130-bed Hadassah hospital for tuberculars here was turned over to the Israel Health Ministry at a ceremony here yesterday. The transfer ceremony included payment of 120,000 pounds by Hadassah into a pension fund for the 60 hospital employes who are entering government service via the transfer.
Established more than 30 years ago, the hospital pioneered in anti-tuberculosis methods and ultimately helped to bring the incidence rate in Israel down to six per 100,000, the lowest rate in the world. During Israel’s War of Independence, patients were evacuated under gunfire and served as an army surgical base, caring for more than 700. later the hospital resumed its original function with an expansion to meet the needs of tubercular persons coming during the post-war mass immigration.
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