With the arrival at Haifa today of over 700 Jewish refugees from Shanghai, the Joint Distribution Committee and International Refugee program of transporting some 5,000 Jews from various Chinese cities to Israel has been completed. Today’s group included some 200 “hard-core” patients and a staff of 29 J.D.C. and I.R.O. medical personnel.
The handicapped refugees will be cared for by Malben, social welfare agency astablished jointly by the J.D.C., Israel Government and Jewish Agency. Some 6,000 ill and handicapped refugees have already been referred to Malben by various social work groups in Israel. Three thousand cases are already undergoing treatment and 2,600 persons are hospitalized in Malben’s 24 institutions, including tuberculosis cases, mental cases, mentally defective children, aged, crippled and blind persons.
More than $4,000,000 has been spent to date in establishing Malben institutions. Earmarked for Malben activities during the first six months of 1950 are $17,500,000.
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