learning from the order of st. john as old players in the 11 th century foundations of the hospital...
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Learning from the Order of St.
John as old players in the 11th Century Foundations of the Hospital Movement.
• In 1113 The Pope recognised the Order of St. John as an independent religious Order consisting of monks and nuns whose special tasks were to care for the sick during the Crusades.
• ‘Brothers’ built early hospitals. This one in Jerusalem to accommodate 2000 patients regardless of religion, nationality or sex.
11th Century Brothers developed:
• Superb hygiene standards.
Hand Washing, Use of Gold & Silver for effective
sterilisation.• Drugs/ Herbal medicines.• Recognised the need for
tranquillity for healing and isolation for infectious disease.
EARLY HOSPITALLERS BELIEVED EVERY POOR MAN
AND WOMAN WAS CHRIST AND THEREFORE
THE MOST LUXURIOUS TREATMENT AVAILABLE
WAS PROVIDED FOR THEM.
• Criteria for early Carers was carefully understood by means of each arm and point of the cross representing a quality one must possess in order to carry out the ‘hospital work’.
5 = Righteousness6 = Meekness7 = Mercy8 = Purity
1 = Comforting2 = Humility3 = Peacemaking4 = Endurance
• Early Hospitallers wore a white, eight pointed cross symbolic to the order.
• It was adopted from the Republic of Amalfi.
• This cross is still globally recognised today.
11th Century Hospitallers have left a legacy of care.
Little did the Hospitallers realise that their insights and strategies would constitute the ‘core’ of health promotion as we know it in the 21st Century.
The Order of St. John has over 200,000 volunteersand staff in 45 national St. John organisations around the globe each
unit delivering health care according to the needs of the local community.
11th Century Brothers….
Contemporary ‘Serving Brother’ Michael Jackson….
In 1882, the Order of St. John, returning to its ancient origins, opened a hospital in Jerusalem for the treatment of eye disease, the first in the Middle East.
• The hospital helps 60,000 patients each year.
• Carries out 6,000 major operations.
• The hospital sends out an Outreach team to remote villages.
• Many Health Professionals are sent here for specialist training and experience.
World HealthOrganisation
(WHO)
United Nation’sChildren’s Fund
(UNICEF)
NigeriaAIDS Awareness
Programme
Community HealthServices in Malawi
Antigua & BarbudaHealth Education
In Schools programmeBermuda
Initiative forAutomatic Emergency
Defibrillators
FijiAmbulance Subscription
SchemeGhana
National ImmunisationDays
GibraltarEmergency Ambulance
Services
Hong KongDental Health
Programme
MalaysiaHaemodialysis
Service
MaltaRescue Service
PakistanHospitals, Clinics,
Ambulance service,Family Planning
Papua New GuineaServices for the Blind
United KingdomFirst Aid, Care,
Training
ZimbabweHealth
Auxiliary
UNITED NATIONS(UN)
