{"entity":{"id":"augusta-victoria-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem","aka":["AVH"],"tldr":"A hospital of the Lutheran World Federation on the Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem that gives radiotherapy and chemotherapy to patients from the West Bank and Gaza. Its radiotherapy department treats about 150 patients a day.","summary":"The hospital says it has provided care since 1950, was established in partnership with UNRWA to care for Palestinian refugees, and is run by the Lutheran World Federation. Its radiation therapy page says it set up a radiotherapy department in 2003, when the treatment was not available in any other local hospital, and that three radiation oncologists, four medical physicists and 17 radiation therapy technicians treat about 150 patients a day from the West Bank and Gaza. Its medical oncology department has seven medical oncologists treating solid tumours and sees 60 to 80 patients a day. Its site reports its fifth Joint Commission International accreditation. IAEA DIRAC, read on 11 November 2026, lists the hospital under Israel with three linear accelerators and a CT scanner (2026 entry); OnCo files it under Palestine, as UICC lists the Patient's Friends Society based in the hospital.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Augusta Victoria Hospital","url":"https://www.avh.org"},{"label":"AVH: radiation therapy department","url":"https://www.avh.org/content/radiation-therapy-department"},{"label":"AVH: medical oncology and chemotherapy day care","url":"https://avh.org/content/medical-oncology-chemotherapy-day-care"},{"label":"UICC member directory: Patient's Friends Society Jerusalem","url":"https://www.uicc.org/membership/patients-friends-society-jerusalem"},{"label":"IAEA DIRAC: radiotherapy centres and equipment (read 11 November 2026)","url":"https://dirac.iaea.org/Data/CountriesLight"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["an-najah-national-university-hospital","istishari-arab-hospital","aid-and-hope-gaza"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Jerusalem","country":"PS","lat":31.787,"lng":35.249,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://www.avh.org","programs":["Radiation therapy (from 2003)","Medical oncology and chemotherapy day care"]},"route":"/institutions/augusta-victoria-hospital/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"aid-and-hope-gaza","kind":"institution","name":"Aid and Hope Program for Cancer Patient Care, Gaza","route":"/institutions/aid-and-hope-gaza/"},{"id":"an-najah-national-university-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"An-Najah National University Hospital, Nablus","route":"/institutions/an-najah-national-university-hospital/"},{"id":"istishari-arab-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Istishari Arab Hospital, Ramallah","route":"/institutions/istishari-arab-hospital/"}]}}