Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
hospital in North Gaza, Palestine
Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital (Arabic: المستشفى الأهلي العربي المعمداني, lit. 'The Arab Baptist National Hospital'), usually called the Baptist Hospital for short (Arabic: المستشفى المعمداني), is a hospital in the Gaza Strip. Its headquarters are located in the Zeitoun neighborhood in the south of Gaza City, Palestine, and it is managed by the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem. Founded in 1882, it is one of the oldest hospitals in the city and the only Christian hospital in Gaza.
History
The hospital has been in operation since 1882. It was established in what was then the Ottoman Empire as a medical mission of the Anglican Church's Church Missionary Society (CMS) following the Anglo-Egyptian War. In 1954, the hospital was purchased by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, which renamed it the Gaza Baptist Hospital (Arabic: المستشفى المعمداني). In the early 1980s, it was returned to the CMS, which turned it over to the Anglican Diocese of Jerusalem. The diocese changed the name of the hospital to Ahli Arab Hospital.
The hospital is the only Christian hospital in the Gaza Strip. It normally handles around 300 surgeries and 600 radiological and a total of 3,000 outpatient visits per month.
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