Not used in the CM. A Church World Service photo of a woman (a nurse?) working at a table set up beside a truck with 2 young boys lined up beside her. She is caring for their medical needs. This photo was originally in the envelope of photo 2010-14.379 as was the following photo, 2010-14.381. See another CWS photo in the CM 15-22-10 illustrating the famine in India.

This is a photo of Tina Driedger administering TB vaccine while Cliff Amstutz is holding a reluctant child at the nursing post in Villa Imperial, Bolivia. A woman, possibly the mother, is looking on.

This is a photo of pediatric nurse Alice Drefcheirski (right) with patients of the Teche Action Clinic in Franklin, La. MCC U. S. volunteers also work at the clinic.

This is a photo of nurse Judy Koop Bietz of Winnipeg, MB giving an injection to a young Bolivian. She is one of the MCCers featured in the new MCC film, "Give Me Your Hand: MCC Today".

This is a photo of an agent de sante with the pre-natal clinic from Grande Riviere hospital in Haiti checking the blood pressure of a woman.

A small child is given a spoonful of medicine as part of the work of MCC’s Mobile Clinic in Taiwan. In the background, a console table holding a bag and a box is set against the outdoor wooden wall of a building. Original label: “A little tot takes his medicine for intestinal parasites. This treatment is very popular with the children since it is given with sugar.”

A seated woman holds a child as health care workers administer treatment to the child’s eyes. Tables of medical equipment and a cabinet can be seen around the room, and two women and two children look toward the camera from the background. Taken at the Hualien Clinic, Taiwan, operated by MCC out of a building owned by an aluminum company (and later, a fertilizer company). Original label: “Hualien Clinic, Formosa. Here a small child receives eye treatment for trachoma. Special emphasis in eye treatments is made at the clinic because of the high incidence of eye conditions.”

The Hualien Clinic is a precursor to the Mennonite Christian Hospital in Hualien, built in 1954. These health care facilities were established as an outgrowth of the work of Mennonite Central Committee’s Mobile Clinic Team, which, beginning in 1948, sought to provide medical assistance to the Indigenous peoples of Taiwan. The 1954 hospital continues today, claiming to be the largest Mennonite hospital. The hospital’s website frequently cites the story of its Mennonite origins, and the building even includes a “historical corridor” with artifacts and historical information.

For more information:

https://www.mennonitemission.net/Impact/locations/asia/Taiwan

https://www.mch.org.tw/Docs/53/Default.aspx

https://www.mch.org.tw/Docs/270/Default.aspx

A child stands on a platform, chest against a surface, for an x-ray machine at left. Mennonite Christian Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan

1954 label: “Dr. Chen gives attention to the broken leg of a two-year-old boy at the hospital. There are thirty beds in the hospital. / Formosa, 1954”

Dr. Roland Brown (left) and an assistant dress the wound of a patient. Mennonite Christian Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan. In the foreground is a cart of medical supplies. 1964 label: “Doctor Roland Brown doing a dressing on the ward.”

Dr. Roland Brown examines a child with a stethoscope, Mennonite Christian Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan.

Three medical workers perform entropion surgery to correct a patient’s eyelid. Hualien Clinic, Taiwan. Original label: “The Mobile Eye Clinic works in connection with the large Hwalien Clinic. It goes to towns and villages in outlying districts. If the Mobile Eye Clinic discovers a patient needing an operation, he is requested to come to Hwalien where facilities are more convenient. This is one of the many patients needing operations discovered by the Mobile Eye Clinic. An Entropion operation at the Hwalien Clinic."