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Life in Many Voices

Hear about the work of SJEHG on BBC World Service Programme

Produced by Mike Greenwood

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The work of the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group relieves poverty and brings hope to more than 100,000 ordinary Palestinians every year.

Services provided by our Hospitals, Clinics and Mobile Outreach Unit revive education and employment prospects, and contribute to economic growth.

Our ophthalmic training courses for local Doctors and Nurses are an investment in the region and help to rebuild its fractured infrastructure.

We treat patients regardless of ethnicity, religion or ability to pay.

Our work changes lives.

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Latest News

New Case Study Posted

Read about 58 year old Mrs Khadra Marawa from Tamoon near Jenin, who came to our Jerusalem Hospital in May suffering from both cataract AND glaucoma, but with no money to pay for treatment.

Archive SJEHG BBC Appeal Comes to Light

An archive transcript of an early BBC appeal on behalf of the then St John Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem has been brought to our attention by Trustee, Colonel Mrs Sheenah Davies.

The transcript is an example of an early charity appeal on the BBC programme, “The Week's Good Cause”, made by broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas in 1966.

New Case Study Posted

Read about 63 year old Mrs Fawzieh Mohammad Abu Imayyer from Beit Awwa, who came to our Hospital in Hebron in March to be treated for cataract.

Mothers' Day in Jerusalem

It was Mothers’ Day in this part of the world last Wednesday, 21 March. Mothers at St John would have liked to celebrate it with their children, but working in a hospital consumes every letter of the saying “Duty Calls”. However, as always, the St. John family are resourceful and can manage under any circumstance.

The nurses gathered, having arranged to bring whatever contribution they could, to have a joint breakfast to celebrate their motherhood, their work and the struggle to promote a better lifestyle for their children.

Gaza Capital Appeal 2012 – 2014

Ghetto project gets Green Light!

In the Winter 2011 edition of Jerusalem Scene, we reported that we had taken possession of a plot of land in the University District of Gaza City, upon which the intention is to build a replacement Day Hospital and Clinic for Gaza.

It is currently estimated that we will need to raise in excess of £1.68m ($2.66m) between now and 2014 in order to realise this much needed project.

Visit the Hospital in Jerusalem!

The Guild of the St John Eye Hospital Group is currently devising a tour of the Holy Land, which will take place at the end of September 2012.

Visiting various sites in Galilee, Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the tour will also take in the main Hospital in Jerusalem, our clinic in Anabta and the Hospital in Hebron.

Thoughts from our Chief Executive

Gaza: The Strategic Plan

A Brief Word from our Chairman

The State of Play

Why phacoemulsification, and why is it so costly?

In the oPt, as in much of the developing world, cataract remains the leading cause of preventable blindness. Around the world, there are well-established surgical techniques for removing the opaque cataractous lens and inserting a plastic ‘implant’ – or intra-ocular lens – but the challenge is to operate on as many people as possible, in the most cost-effective way and this is not so straightforward in practice.

Our Joint Training Programme

Bringing Palestinian and Israeli together

Many of you who have been supporters of the Eye Hospital Group for a while will know of our Joint Training Programme with the Hadassah Medical Centre in Israeli West Jerusalem that has been running since 2001.

Eleven years into the project, Jerusalem Scene thought it might be timely to remind our readership of the wonderful dialogue between East and West Jerusalem that is made possible by this ground-breaking venture.

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Apr122012

A Message from Luke Roberts @ Lifelines

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Dear Friends,

Thank you to all those who came to Lifelines’ fundraising event last week for St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital (SJEH).

Thank you to everyone who contributed to such a memorable night of great warmth and compassion.

Please click here for a brief round-up of the evening, which includes some fabulous photos by Alexandre Moreau...

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Feb222012

Cataracts and Banksy

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I’d like to use this blog to advertise the work of Pictures on Walls, our most recent supporters! Pictures on Walls is a company that supply high quality limited edition prints from the most popular contemporary street artists. Banksy comes to mind, doesn’t he? Well, they’ve recently opened up a shop in Commercial Street, named by the Guardian newspaper as one of the ten best shops in East London. This shop is the ONLY venue to buy a real Banksy screen print!

Check out this article:

Feb152012

Life in Many Voices

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Very excited to inform you all that we are going to be on BBC Radio next weekend! Entitled ‘Life in Many Voices’ the programme will be transmitted on the BBC World Service on:

Sunday 25th Feb @ 19.05pm GMT
Monday 26th Feb : 11.05
Monday 27th Feb @ 02.05

Hope you all can tune into one of the dates.

Jan252012

2011 STATS!

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The stats are out and I’m very happy to tell you all that this year the Hospital Group treated a whopping 107,048 patients, out of which 35,986 under the age of 18. Despite the funding difficulties, our numbers are up on last year and we’re all very happy to have reached more people than we have ever done in the past.

The breakdown of number is as follows:

44,877 patients treated at the main hosptal in East Jerusalem.

22,358 patients treated at the Gaza clinic. in Gaza

12,617 patients treated at the Hebron Hospital. in Hebron

Jan182012

Blogging from Jerusalem!

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Dear People of the Blogosphere

I am actually sitting at my desk in an office in our Hospital in Jerusalem as I type this! It’s very cold, but the sun is shining and it’s good to be here.

The reason that I am here is to help refine our potential diabetic retinopathy screening programme, which – if it comes off – will see us working in partnership with The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in their camps in the south of the West Bank.

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