He considered an avenger for the inhabitants of the old city before the Zionist entity closed it in the mid-1980s, everyone in Old Town treated in it, and some patient came from many cities from the west bank, but the authorities of the Zionist entity closed it and turned all its patients to the Zionist Hadassah hospital.
Large demonstrations then carried out to force the Zionist entity to abandon its decision, but hit the demands of the population walled and pushed large forces of the army and police to control the hospital and expel all of it.
Past and present hospital
The hospital built by order of Emperor Franz Joseph to be a hostel for the Austrians, and remained the same until it used as a hospital in the late British Mandate by a decision of the British Ministry of Health converted to a military hospital,
However, in the same year turned into a civil hospital after the Kingdom of Jordan took control of the eastern part of Jerusalem, was health vent for the town dwellers, before closing it by The Zionist entity at middle of eighteenth decade.
It was a big hospital in the early days, served all the inhabitants of the town with low wages and in many cases free of charge. It affiliated to the Austrian government, then converted to hotel receives tourists from all countries of the world.