The city of Jerusalem cannot accept a proposal from Hadassah to take over nine Hadassah health stations because it does not have the money to operate them, Mayor Mordecai Ish Shalom told a municipal executive meeting today.
He said Hadassah had offered to transfer the stations, as well as school health and regional dental services to the city as part of its decentralization program. In that program, Hadassah has transferred since 1952 some 130 services to various municipalities and local councils.
Now devoting its major planning and fund-raising to medical work, teaching and research, Hadassah asked the Jerusalem Municipality and the Health Ministry to assume management of its stations within the Jerusalem city limits. The Ministry approved the idea but the city had to reject it, the Mayor said.
Some 90 dentists and doctors would have been involved in such a transfer. Hadassah had agreed to cover most of the budget for the first year.
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