The Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat (Eye and ENT) Hospital of Fudan University (), formerly the Shanghai Jewish Hospital (also B'nai B'rith Foundation Polyclinic), is a

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Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

, China, affiliated with the

Shanghai Medical College The Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, formerly the independent Shanghai Medical University, is one of the oldest and most prestigious medical schools in China. Clinical medicine of the Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University is c ...

of Fudan University and the Red Cross Society of Shanghai. It is rated Grade 3, Class A, the highest rating in the Chinese medical system. __TOC__

Overview

There are 374 beds on the main Fenyang Road campus of the hospital, which comprises the departments of

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Otorhinolaryngology Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspeciality within medicine that deals with the surgical a ...

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, Laser Therapy and

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. The hospital has 1,112 employees. It treats 1.8 million outpatients and performs 90,000 surgeries per year, with patients coming from all over China. In addition to the main campus at Fenyang Road in

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, it has a second site on Baoqing Road, and two other campuses in

Pudong Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank, directly across from the west bank or Puxi, the historic city ...

and

Minhang Minhang District is a suburban district of Shanghai with a land area of and population of 2,429,000 residents as of 2010. The original Minhang consist of present-day Jiangchuan Road Subdistrict (Former Minhang Town) and the eastern strip of Wu ...

, respectively. The Minhang campus has an additional 350 beds.

History

The hospital was founded in 1934 by the

B'nai B'rith B'nai B'rith International (, from he, בְּנֵי בְּרִית, translit=b'né brit, lit=Children of the Covenant) is a Jewish service organization. B'nai B'rith states that it is committed to the security and continuity of the Jewish peopl ...

Shanghai Lodge with funds donated by the prominent Jewish businessman

Elly Kadoorie Sir Eleazer "Elly" Silas Kadoorie (1867 – February 8, 1944) was a Baghdadi-born Jewish businessman and philanthropist active in Shanghai and Hong Kong. He was a member of the wealthy Kadoorie family that had large business interests in the F ...

. It was originally called the B'nai B'rith Foundation Polyclinic (). In 1940, it opened a dispensary which provided free medicine to the indigent. After the outbreak of the

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, the Russian Jewish community in the city took over the clinic in 1942, moved it to the current site on Route Pichon (now Fenyang Road), and expanded it into a hospital. On 16 January 1943, the renamed Shanghai Jewish Hospital () was opened. At the time it had 60 beds and state-of-the-art equipment including the

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machine, and it provided treatment to the poor free of charge. I. K. Kagan served as chairman of the hospital, and S. Citrin, chairwoman of the ladies' committee, oversaw the house management and the kitchen. After the founding of the

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, the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat (Eye and ENT) Hospital of the Shanghai Medical College was established in 1952 by professors Hu Maolian () and Guo Bingkuan () on the site of the Jewish Hospital. It adopted the current name in 2000, when the Shanghai Medical College was merged into Fudan University to become its medical school. The hospital opened a second site on Baoqing Road in 2002, a

campus in 2003, and a Pujiang,

, campus in 2017.

References

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