Radio broadcast about the history of healthcare in and around Delden | News | News from Delden

In History Close, Hostreek FM looks back on a certain period. This time Marten van Wijhe, Jos Andriessen and Leen Quak from Twents Regional Archives Delden will discuss medical matters in Delden’s past with Sander Quee from Hofstreek Omroep.

In the 70s and 80s you could often see a very neat older gentleman walking through Delden. He did not speak to people, he walked happily about doing his shopping. It was Dolek Guensberg, retired anesthetist from the Hengelo hospitals in 1973. He was also a war hero and the first medical specialist anesthetist in Twente. What is his life story and how was anesthesia given in the post-war years?

Surgeon Adolph de Meijer had a medical practice in Goor in the second half of the 17th century, but he also practiced in the surrounding hamlets of Kerspel Goor, Elsen, Wiene and Zeldam and places such as Rijssen and Delden. Knowledge about the life and works of Adolph de Meijer is derived from his so-called debt book in which he wrote down his medical activities from 1663 to 1698 and what he charged for them. The Meijer’s accounting offers an insight into daily life at the time and is also important genealogically.

From 1903 until its closure in 1963, a hospital stood in Delden on the site of the current nursing home behind the Roman Catholic church in the Langestraat. It was an initiative of the then pastor and the Baron van Twickel made the building land available. It started modestly with two rooms and six beds. Nursing care was provided by the Congregation of Saint Joseph from Amersfoort. Over the years, expansions were added with an operating room and X-ray equipment. The general practitioners arranged the admissions and visited the patients in the clinic. After the Second World War, a separate wing was opened with a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. Chronic patients were gradually admitted, and in 1963 the house was recognized as a nursing home.

Broadcast: Saturday, March 30 at 2 p.m.

Repeat: Wednesday April 3 at 6 p.m.