Medical Mission Sisters (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

USA / Pennsylvania / Rockledge / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Pine Road, 8400
 health center, catholicism, women/girls-only
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The Medical Mission Sisters were founded in 1925 in Washington, D.C., by Austrian-born Dr. Anna Dengel,MD. Working in what was then north India in the early 1920s, Anna Dengel experienced firsthand the unnecessary sickness and death of countless Muslim women and children, whose customs isolated them from medical care administered by male physicians. She became convinced that a group of women health professionals, who dedicated their lives to God, could make a difference in helping women to have access to the health care they deserved.

www.medicalmissionsisters.org/
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Coordinates:   40°5'4"N   75°4'41"W
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