Dr. Jill Biden, the Second Lady of the United States of America and the Vice President’s spouse, accompanied by the spouse of the American Consul General in Jerusalem, the Deputy Mission Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development and members of the delegation accompanying the U.S. Vice President during his visit to the region, visited the Augusta Victoria Hospital. Dr. Tawfiq Nasser, the CEO of the Hospital and Reverend Mark Brown, the Regional Representative of the Lutheran World Federation in Jerusalem and the Middle East, received the guests, then Dr. Biden was introduced to the administrative and medical team managing the hospital.
Dr. Nasser expressed his deep gratitude to the American people and government for their support to the hospital’s ongoing and future projects and focused on the major role that this hospital and other Jerusalem hospitals play in providing support to the Palestinian health system and contribute to the building of civil society institutions.
Dr. Biden and the visiting delegation then visited the hospital facilities and talked to the women who were waiting to receive radiotherapy treatment. This visit comes in the light of the assistance provided to the hospital in the field of cancer screening and treatment as Augusta Victoria Hospital is the only Arab Palestinian hospital that provides comprehensive services to cancer patients starting from radiotherapy to chemotherapy and surgical interventions.
The guest then visited the Radiotherapy Unit where Dr. Nasser provided her with details regarding the hospital’s future plans to expand the cancer treatment services. This was followed by a visit to the site of the future linear accelerator used in radiotherapy.
She also visited the Kidney Dialysis Unit for adults followed by a visit to the Pediatric cancer care and kidney care unit, where she met with some children suffering from cancer who receive treatment at the hospital and one of the children presented a symbolic present to Dr. Biden.
At the end of the visit, Dr. Biden expressed her deep thanks to Dr. Nasser and to Reverend Brown for the warm reception she received at the hospital and acknowledged the huge efforts exerted by the hospital staff and management.

