Malteser Hospitaldienst Austria

Malteser Hospitaldienst Austria is an Austrian aid agency. Its official website presents it as 'Die Malteser in Österreich' and lists services including medical, ambulance, patient transport, rescue, social, palliative care, nursing, disaster relief and integration services, as well as pilgrimages and travel. The site also references Malteser International Austria and a Malteser clinic in Gaza.

The official history page states that around 1048 Gerhard Tonque founded a hospital in Jerusalem for needy and sick pilgrims in the Holy Land, and that the Sovereign Malteser-Ritter-Orden emerged from this brotherhood, dedicated to fighting the eightfold misery symbolized by the Malteser cross: illness, hunger, guilt, unbelief, homelessness, abandonment, indifference and lovelessness. The page notes that today the Sovereign Malteser-Ritter-Orden counts [text truncated in source].

1. 1MALTESER Austria: Mit Menschen im Zeichen der Nächstenliebe arbeitenmalteser.at
2. 2Geschichte - MALTESER Austria - Hospitaldienstmalteser.at
3. 3Wikidata Q1887843wikidata.org