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Jibla hospital reopens with fewer beds and
workers but future is bright, manager says
By Mark Kelly
CHARLESTON, S.C. (BP) —
Barely a month after three
Southern Baptist medical workers were murdered,
the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen, has
reopened, the medical center's business manager
told a group of Baptist editors Feb. 7.
Although not yet operating at
the same capacity as before, workers at the
hospital are excited about the future, Lee
Hixon told members of the Association of State
Baptist Papers meeting in Charleston, S.C.
Talking with the group by speakerphone
from Yemen, Hixon said the 45-bed hospital
opened 14 beds in three wards on Feb. 1 and
is averaging about 40 clinic patients and
a half-dozen surgeries a day. Last year, hospital
staff members were seeing 120 to 140 patients
a day and conducting 400 to 500 surgeries
a month. Read
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