THE DETROIT WISH IBS

Friday, Aagist 6, 1962 35

H.M.O. CAMPAIGN
STARTS IMMEDIATELY

Recent events in the Middle East have increased the
patient load of the Hadassah Medical Complex to capacity.
Both the Hadassah Hospital at Mt. Scopus and the one at
Ein Karem were physically ready to handle the, casualties,
but are not budgeted to handle the additional costs that a
war creates. The first few weeks of the conflict alone pro-
duced a $1,000,000 deficit. Ongoing events plus the antici-
pated rehabilitation care will necessitate an even larger
budget than had been planned for next year.

Annette Meskin, president of the Greater Detroit
Chapter of -Hadassah recently announced that because of
this urgent need for funds, Hadassah will begin the annual
1982-1983 campaign for the Hadassah Medical Organiza-
tion in August, one month earlier than usual.

Jerusalem . . . An Israel Defense Forces helicopter delivers soldiers from Lebanese front to Hadassah
intensive-care ambulance where treatment begins even before patient reaches Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center, which cares for cases requiring special-sophisticated procedures in neurosurgery, ophthal-
mology, burns unit, etc. Civilian patients not needing hospitalization have been sent home to leave beds for war
wounded and, also, to relieve staff reduced one-quarter by army call up.

Last year the Greater Detroit Chapter of Hadassah
raised over $350,000 of the $20 million raised nationally for
operation and maintenance costs of the Hadassah Medical
Complex. With the increased need Hadassah hopes to raise
twenty-five percent more money this year. Hadassah is the
only volunteer organization that is responsible for support-
ing the Hadassah Medical Complex.

These members of The
Medical Advisory Board of
Hadassah would like to
share the following fads with
the American people.

Since 1975, when civil war destroyed the central
government of Lebanon, the National Health System
has been devaStated and there has been virtually no
government health care for the people of Southern
Lebanon. This situation, a direct result of the civil war
and its attendant atrocities, has led to more suffering
and death than any other single action in the Middle
East. With the breakdown of public health programs,
rabies and polio which are endemic, have increased,
while outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and malaria have
also flared up, claiming-scores of victims.
Since the GOod Fence was established at the border
in June of 1976, the government of Israel, Israeli citi-
zens, and volunteer organizations like Hadassah have
responded to the need of-the Lebanese and stepped in
to ease their suffering. To date, over 200,000 people
have been treated at the Fence and in Israel.

Chairman:
Jules Hirsch. M.D..
Professor.
Rockefeller University. New York

Jeremiah A. Barondess. M.D..
Professor of Clinical Medicine.
New York Hospital—
Cornell Medical Center

Eugene Braunwald. M.D..
Physician-in-Chief.
Brigham & Women's Hospital
& Beth Israel Hospital
Professor of Medicine.
Harvard Medical School

MartiaCherkasky. M.D..
Consultant.
Montefiore Hospital and
Medical Center

Since thi new emergency began, convoys of
ambulances with volunteer medical teams have been
rushed to Lebanon along with a mobile blood bank and
laboratories. Blood, plasma, antibiotics, vaccines,
medical supplies and surgical equipment have been
made available for treating all those in need of care-
- Lebanese and Palestinian civilians—alikc. Many adults-,
as well as gravely sick and injured children from
Lebanon, accompanied by their relatives, have been
admitted to Hadassah's advanced treatment facilities
in Jerusalem.
In the reporting of the situation in Lebanon, the
humanitarian efforts of voluntary and government
sectors in Israel have often been overlooked. We offer
these facts in hopes of providing the American people
with an accurate representation of events in this troub-
led part of the world. •

t.)

Saul Farber. M.D..
Chairman. Dept. of Medicine.
New York University
School of Medicine

Aaron 1. Feder. M.D..
Clinical Professor of Medicine.
New York Hospital—
Cornell Medical Center

Norman Kretchmer. M.D..
Professor of Nutritional Sciences.
and Pediatrics and Obstetrics.
University of California-Berkeley

adassah

Mitchell Rabkin. M.D..
President.
Beth Israel Hospital—Boston
Harvard Medical School

Albert 1. Solnit. M.D..
Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry.
Yale University School of Medicine

William Silen. M.D..
Surgeon-in-Chief.
Beth Israel Hospital—Boston
Professor of Surgeon.
Harvard Medical School

Samuel 0. Thiel*. M.D..
Chairman. Dept. of Internal Medicine,
Yale University School of Medicine

• Institutions are listed here
for identification only.

This ad has been sponsored by Hadassah,The Women's Zionist Organization of A merica, Inc.,50 West 58th Street, New York, N Y 10019-Frieda S. Lewis, President