Orient Hospital
The Orient Hospital (Arabic: مستشفى الشرق) was a Lebanese non-profit hospital. Whose mission was to admit Low-Income patients. It was founded in 1947 by Dr. Sami Ibrahim Haddad.
Location and Description
It overlooked the Saint Georges bay in Beirut.It was a 54 bed hospital.
The main structure was a renovated five-story building with a newly built annex for nurses. The ground floor consisted of admissions, a reception hall enclosed by consultation offices, a medical laboratory, and an OPD.
The second floor was devoted to surgical beds, while the third floor housed the medical patients.
A single operating theater occupied the fourth floor with its sterilizing equipment, and a 50-seats lecture hall was adjacent to it.The fifth floor, with its terrace all around, was the living quarters for interns.
It was organized into four departments, urology and urosurgery, neuro-surgery, obstetrics, and radiology.
External Specialists were allowed to admit and operate upon their patients at the hospital.
The End of the Humanitarian Mission
The hospital was run and administered by his founder until his death in 1957, after which his sons, Dr. Farid Sami Haddad and Dr.Fuad Sami Haddad took over. The Orient Hospital closed it's doors in 1976 at the begining of the Lebanese Civil War.It was later demolished by it's owners not to allow gunmen to occupy it due to it's location in heavily faught Downtown Beirut.