THE PATIENTS

Who are the patients?

The 50,000 people treated during a year at Laniado come from the broadest range of backgrounds imaginable.

There are religious Muslims who pray in the waiting rooms in Arabic, and Hasidic Jews who do exactly the same, only in Hebrew. There are Christians who pass their waiting time reading the Bible, and other patients who are non-religious or avowedly secular.

There are, sadly, victims of the region’s violence, and happily women who go in to give birth. Laniado’s doctors were the first in the region to deliver quadruplets, born to a woman from a Palestinian village. Had they not arranged with the Palestinian Authority and Israeli government to clear roadblocks and allow her admission, the quads would have arrived without the specialist care they needed.
There is care for elderly patients, and a new children’s’ hospital where doctors ensure that every child in this troubled region receives the protection promised in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

Some patients have the means to give a donation to the hospital when they leave, in appreciation of the excellent care they received, while others need charitable money to pay for a taxi home. Despite the fact that Laniado only receives limited government funding, nobody is turned away, and everybody is given the very best treatment.

Click here to read how the Hospital was founded against all odds by a Holocaust rabbi who had lost everything.