The Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem, Palestine, is a truly special place. Located just steps away from the birthplace of Christ, the Order of Malta-run maternity and neonatal critical care centre serves poor and at-risk women, infants and children throughout the region.
For the over 30 years since it became a specialized maternity unit, the area where the Hospital operates has been one of conflict and poverty, of refugee camps and remote desert villages. Notwithstanding the devastating economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, it continues to offer state-of-the-art neonatal care and support to families and it is where about 90% of all Bethlehem’s infants are born.