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Children’s Fun Days continue at St. John Eye Hospital, Jerusalem

This Wednesday, 8 February, 2012, we had another one of our weekly fun days for our little patients scheduled to see the specialists in the Orthoptic Clinic and our skilled paediatric Doctors. As it is every week, the waiting room was prepared for the children and equipped with paper and drawing and colouring pens to keep them occupied while waiting their turn, and to make coming to St. John Eye Hospital a fun experience.

The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group is most pleased to announce that The Prem Rawat Foundation has awarded $30,000 (£18,840) towards our work with children across the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).

This is the fourth award to the Hospital Group made by The Prem Rawat Foundation and marks a $5,000 increase on that of 2010.

US Senator, Mary Landrieu, made a special request to visit to our Jerusalem Hospital on a trip to Israel recently. The Senator, on a trade mission to the region in October, was accompanied on her visit by senior US Consulate official, Walter Miller. Senator Lanrieu is good friends with members of the St John Priory in the United States. What follows here is a selection of photographs taken during her visit.

BBC Crew Visits the Hospital Group

A BBC radio crew visited the Hospital Group for a documentary entitled “Life in Many Voices”

Staying at the Jerusalem Hospital from 20 – 27 November 2011, BBC World Service producer, Mike Greenwood , and his crew collected audio material for the radio programme, which will feature the work of the St. John Eye Hospital Group.

Carole Hayman and Josh Pulman are also visiting the Hospital in order to gather promotional and research material about the work of the Hospital Group that could be developed into a proposal for a film on the subject.

Sister Ann Zawahreh – A tribute to 38 years of loyal service.

Jerusalem Nurse In Move Back to Sweden.

Farewell to Siw Westman – Ophthalmic Sister and Orthoptist.

When Siw arrived at the hospital in 1990, she did not realize what an exciting career span lay ahead of her at the St John Eye Hospital. She trained as an Ophthtlamic nurse at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden and had spent two years at the King Khaled Eye Hospital in Saudi Arabia by the time she arrived at St John.

Jerusalem Gardeners Get New Plough!

The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group remains most grateful to The Worshipful Company of Gardeners for its support of our Jerusalem Hospital’s famous garden over the years. On the occasion of the Company’s most recent award to the Hospital Group in favour of a ploughing machine for Jerusalem, we thought we’d write up a short piece on the men who make the Jerusalem garden happen.

The St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital group is delighted to announce that Children of Peace has awarded a grant of £5,000 towards our work treating squint in young girls in East Jerusalem and the West bank.

Squint, or strabismus, is a condition where the eyes do not look in the same direction. Whilst one eye looks forwards to focus on an object, the other eye turns either inwards, outwards, upwards or downwards.

Nicky Wynne pays tribute

Celebrating the philanthropic endeavours of our friends, The Knights Templar – who, in addition to their generous annual donations – this year raised a staggering £140,000 for the purchase of vital systems for the early detection of preventable blindness.

Thoughts from our Chief Executive

Steady at the Helm and Gaza News

It is hard to believe more than three years have passed since John Talbot took over the Chairmanship of our Board. The time has flown by, an indication of just how busy we have been. A time of mostly highs with a modicum of lows – the latter generally financially driven and beyond our control. I take this opportunity of sincerely thanking John for his guidance, his wisdom and also his friendship. John was well supported by his wife Esme and both will be missed.