Hospital commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day with local community
Our chaplaincy team, together with Rabbi Irit Shillor from the Harlow Jewish Community and our people from across the hospital met in the chapel on site to hear readings and reflect together (pictured).
For many of our people, this also follows attending the service held at Harlow Civic Centre on Sunday (26 January).
This year marks 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the theme for this year is 'stand together'.
Reverend Christian Okeke, hospital lead chaplain, said: "We were honoured to work with our colleagues from the hospital and community to hold this special service for Holocaust Memorial Day.
"It was a poignant service that gave us an opportunity to join together to reflect on this year's theme of 'stand together'- thank you to everyone involved."
Notes to editors:
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust was established in April 1995 and provides services at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping. We have an annual income of around £236,700 million. We have 414 general and acute beds at the Princess Alexandra Hospital and provide a full range of general acute services, including a 24/7 emergency department, an intensive care unit, a maternity unit and a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). We also provide outpatient and diagnostic services from the Herts and Essex Hospital, Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ around 3,500 staff and serve a local population of about 350,000 people living in West Essex and East Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
In October 2019, the Government announced that we are to receive funding to rebuild a new hospital in Harlow for our patients, community and people. The details around the funding and the timeframe are currently being finalised and we are completing our full business case for the new hospital.