The Women's Organization Takes Over the Islamic Makassed Hospital

• In a great ceremony whose numbers passed one thousand five hundred, on Saturday, October 22, the women's organization took over the Islamic Makassed Hospital from Dr. Muhammad Khalid, as it is later to be handed on to a board of trustees who will carry its heavy burdens...

The ceremony was attended by His Excellency the President of the Republic, His Excellency the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, and a great host of official and civic personalities; the proceedings of the ceremony were carried by Radio Lebanon.

Dr. Muhammad Khalid spoke, reading a list of the donors' names and thanking them, then set forth what he had endured in bringing the project to completion.... Then Mrs. Habiba Shaaban Yakan rose and delivered an address on behalf of the president of the women's committee, Mrs. Fayza al-Solh, in which she summed up the manner in which the hospital came into being.

At the close of the ceremony His Excellency the President decorated both Mrs. al-Solh and Dr. Muhammad Khalid with the Order of the Cedar in the rank of Commander, in appreciation of their services, and announced a government appropriation of fifty thousand lira, which made the happiest of impressions...

We content ourselves for now with this hurried word, space being short, meaning to bring our readers back to the Makassed charitable hospital on another occasion.