(Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Administering to the religious needs of hospital patients was legalized by a decision of the Wzik, the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party.
The decision of the Wzik declared that if patients who are inmates in the city or government hospitals desire to attend religious services or carry out other religious ceremonies, their relatives are entitled to bring clergymen to the hospital on the condition that the services will be performed in separate rooms and not in the general wards.
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