Administrative Committee of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number :: 10 / 7 / 57
Date :: 12 / 8 / 1957
Subject Summary ::
To "- The Records Officer
We have noticed that you have begun admitting patients to hospitals without obtaining the approval of the Administrative Committee
Therefore, from now on, our written approval must be obtained when admitting any patient to the hospital
Otherwise, you will personally bear all hospital expenses in addition to administrative punishment. Also
when admitting any patient to the hospital, the letter must be issued by the Administrative Committee
and signed by it ⟦line⟧ . ⟦illegible⟧ responsibility
The President
A copy of it to "-
His Eminence the Head of the Community for kind information
The aforementioned ⟦line⟧
A copy of it, after being notified by the aforementioned, to be kept with His Eminence the Head of the Community
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Dr. Y. Akrawi's Laboratory
335/1 Rashid Street (Opp. Lynch Building)
No: 424
Baghdad,: ⟦illegible⟧ 1957
Received from: Miss ⟦illegible⟧
the sum of Iraq Dinars: One Only
on account of: Blood Exam
I.D.: 1/-
Y. AKRAWI
⟦illegible⟧
In view of the fact that Dr. Al-Badla gives prescriptions that are
very expensive, and I have repeatedly asked her not to give
expensive prescriptions and she has not responded to that, we ask your Excellency to order
the referral of patients to others.
Contact Dr. Touma,
noting that she will cooperate and reduce the fees
by half a dinar, and send the patients to her.
Dr. Touma ⟦illegible⟧
12 / 8
And I contacted Dr. Al-Badla and informed her
that the medications she gives to patients
are very expensive, and I asked her to reduce the prescriptions
as much as possible, and send her
fewer patients than before.
⟦illegible⟧
12 / 8
Your Excellency the President
We attach herewith the prescription of Dr. Joubanian, to whom the patient
Khatoun Salman was sent according to your approval, along with Dr. Ephram's report
kept at the Sect, and the value of the prescription amounted to 4/400 Dinars
as estimated by the Union Pharmacy.
I have contacted the pharmacist doctor and he stated that
the medicine is necessary and extremely essential ⟦illegible⟧
Approval
8/25
Amen
Awqaf Officer
⟦signature⟧
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His Excellency the President
We attach herewith the prescription of Dr. Karnik W. Owanesian belonging to the patient Saleh
Khadouri, as he was afflicted with a nerve disease which necessitated visiting the aforementioned doctor since
Dr. Jack Abboudi Shabi was outside Iraq. He paid the examination fee from his own money.
Your order is requested as to whether you agree to obtain the prescription from the pharmacy at the expense of the community or not.
This is what had to be presented to Your Excellency.
The Records Officer
⟦822⟧
The Committee?
2/22
His Excellency the President
The prescription has been sent
to Al-Amana Pharmacy
And I have learned that the cost of the prescription
is only 860 fils
The Records Officer
2/22
Approved to take
the medicine from the pharmacy
2/22
20/9/57 Regarding the lists of Al-Ittihad Pharmacy for the month of August 1957, please note the following:-
1 - ⟦illegible⟧ Khatoun Salman receives financial aid from this presidency amounting to 750 fils
weekly. Previously, Dr. ⟦illegible⟧ requested she be sent to Dr. Jahanian for examination, and this request was referred to
your Excellency, and you agreed to send her to the mentioned doctor. The community presidency paid the examination fee of one dinar according to
the receipt from Dr. Jahanian attached herewith. The mentioned doctor wrote a prescription for her, and we sent it to Al-Ittihad Pharmacy to be dispensed.
As for how this prescription was dispensed when it exceeded the prescribed amount, we have no knowledge of that, as I do not have information about
drug prices. When I contacted Al-Ittihad Pharmacy regarding the reason for dispensing it without your Excellency's approval, he informed me that your Excellency
ordered it to be dispensed provided that approval is obtained the next day, and that the pharmacist did not send it for ratification, as it is the pharmacist's duty
to send it to your Excellency. I am not responsible for its signing, as the current custom is that any prescription belonging to the community's patients
is sent to the pharmacist and kept by him to be submitted with the monthly lists, and if it exceeds one and a half dinars, he must obtain
approval to dispense it.
2 - Prescription No. 164, 153, 27 or 128, 108, 83, 55, and 26 in the name of ⟦illegible⟧ aunt of Isaac, residing in Torat Munir
Eliyahu, all of which are signed by Dr. Salman Mikhail, and prescription No. 42 and 85 are signed by Dr. Ihsan Samra.
3 - Prescription No. 21 and 81 signed by the Secretary of the Committee.
Notes of the Secretary of the Committee
1 - We do not have orders to send a pregnant woman to the doctor to prove that she is in labor, so please, your esteemed committee, give us
orders regarding this in the future.
2 - As for the matter of administering injections, the prescription that the doctor gives to the patient is kept by the pharmacist after dispensing, and the injections
and medicines are sent to the community for distribution to the patients. Now I have contacted the pharmacy owner and asked him to provide us in the future
with a true copy if it contains injections to be kept by us and submitted to the esteemed committee with the monthly lists. As for the birth of
the woman named Sarah Yamin, we have, according to the followed custom, given a paper to the nurse Rahma Isaac to perform the delivery for her, and all
residents of Torat Zalkha and others know of her delivery, and pregnancy and birth are visible things, and the newborn is alive and well until now.
3 - Shaul Levi is indeed renting a house from this presidency and he claims to be poor; your orders regarding this in the future.
4 - Menashi Sabih is indeed poor, and your esteemed committee has previously allocated financial aid to him due to his travel outside Iraq.
5 - Shafika Sion, Shaul Hayyim, his sons and daughters, and Naima Murad and her children, totaling 11 people, are always requesting to go
to the doctor, and if ⟦illegible⟧ I refused to send them to the doctor ⟦illegible⟧ that we are sick and we will not go to the doctor ⟦illegible⟧
6 - The accountant of the community presidency has always been requesting to go to Dr. Gurji Rabie or other doctors for a long time, and we do not have
any orders not to give him a paper to the doctor; your orders regarding this in the future.
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57/9/ Regarding the lists of the Union Pharmacy for the month of July, year 57, please note the following :-
1 - A prescription for ⟦illegible⟧ in the name of ⟦illegible⟧ (Faiza Salman, who is my wife) and it was noted in the pharmacy list under the name (Wife of Sassoon Obeidya).
2 - Prescription No. 196 belonging to ⟦illegible⟧ mentioned in paragraph (1) was dispensed in an urgent case, and the pharmacist must send it to
your Excellency for signature.
3 - Prescription No. 35 is in the name of Juliette Muslih, wife of Daoud Nassim, an employee at the Hebra Kadisha Society.
4 - Prescriptions No. 6 and 21 are signed by the Secretary of the Committee.
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6 - The prescription titled (for the community) was dispensed to the Secretary of the community and the synagogue servant.
7 - Prescription No. 56, which does not contain the doctor's name - is signed by Dr. Salman Mikhail.
8 - The prescription without a number; the pharmacist did not indicate a number on it, and it was dispensed in an urgent case and belongs to the patient Shaul Levi,
and I am not responsible for its dispensing as urgent prescriptions are dispensed directly from the pharmacy by order of the treating doctor.
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Papers Officer
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