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THE AUSTRIAN ST.GEORGE'S HOSPITAL ISTANBUL
Austrian Hospital, photograph about 1910
Foundation
"Not giving into circumstances from the outside,
helping the suffering even under the most difficult
circumstances": In 1872, a cholera epidemic
broke out in Istanbul. To help in this situation, two
Daughters of Charity from Graz, Austria came to fight
against the epidemic. They began their nursing work in a
barrack in the area of the Galata Tower. In time more
nursing sisters followed the two pioneers.
In 1895, the present hospital area was begun and the
first children's hospital in the Ottoman Empire was
founded. Included in the area was a section for diseases
of the eye, an out-patient area and a kitchen for the
poor.
In 1927, a new area was built with a section for internal
medicine, surgery and a throat-nose-ear department.
A general remodelling of the hospital was started in
1995.
Present Situation
5 sections with 50 beds; an out-patient section
especially for the poor with 45 to 50 thousand
out-patients treated yearly.
Ownership
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Graz,
Austria.
Superior
Sr. Heliodora Strobl
Sisters
16 Austrian Daughters of Charity (2 of whom have
retired).
Physicians
Dr. Onnik Yayoglu (Chief Physician) 12 Turkish physicians
The new St. George Hospital should have over 50 beds for
the patients with sections for internal medicine,
children's internal medicine, surgery, eye diseases,
ear-nose-throat department, urology, gynaecology, trauma
and orthopedics and an out-patient area. This remodeling
will be financed half by the Daughters of Charity and
half by free will offerings. Donations please send to: Istanbul
Spital, Kt. 0087-52057/00, CA Graz, BLZ 11870, Austria
or: Avust. Sen Jorj Hastahane, AKBANK TAS, 0156
Bankalar Cad. Sub., Hes.No: 06500-3-01 DHV 1, Istanbul
Purpose
The Daughters of Charity feel that St. George Hospital is
an institution for the sick and needy who look for help,
independent of their origins. They want to put a sign of
Christian charity in a Moslem country by fulfilling the
command to make God's grace known in human deeds. The
hospital called the "Sen Jorj Hastanesi" in the
Turkish language should remain an independent element of
the unity between peoples and religions.
Visit of the Austrian Ambassador Dr. R. Scheide 1998
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