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World Jewish News
Former Moldova Community Member Helps Fellow Countrymen
30.04.2009
A former surgeon, member of Orgeevo Jewish community, is helping his fellow countrymen through the charitable organization "Help for disabled children and gravely ill patients of Moldova."
The district hospital of Ovgeevo received another gift from Germany - a modern X-ray machine. The expensive equipment came from one of the German clinics through the charitable organization, headed by the former Ovgeevo resident, Felix Efimovich Lihtgolts. All transportation costs were covered by another well-wisher - the Head of Ovgeevo "Orom-Imexp" SRL company Roman Ungurian.
This is not the first gift of the German charity organization "Help for disabled children and gravely ill patients of Moldova," which has been headed for 15
years now by its founder - Felix Efimovich Lihtgolts. For his selfless work, he was awarded the title "The Honorary Citizen of Ovgeevo."
For almost forty years Lihtgolts worked in Ovgeevo district hospital, including a quarter of a century - as the head of the Surgery Department. A Doctor with a capital D, a responsive soul, he did not forget about the troubles and
difficulties of his town. Just two years after he settled in Stuttgart in 1992, he created a unique charity organization. Its help was needed very soon: when in
the years 1995-96. a diphtheria epidemic broke out in Moldova, Felix Lihtgolts was able to bring antibiotics for the sum of 300 thousand marks, and in 1998 - medicines for cancer carriers for 400 thousand marks. A true enthusiast and humanist, he has been constantly addressing various
agencies, companies, private individuals in Stuttgart, in other German cities, to help residents of a small town in a country that is not Europe's richest.
During all 15 years of existence of the charitable organization, Felix Lihtgolts has managed to collect and bring in Moldova a great number of humanitarian cargos - medicines, wheelchairs, mattresses, tools and equipment
for medical and social institutions, and much more.
Only the number of glasses, brought in and distributed among the older residents of the town and members of the Jewish community, exceeds 10 thousand pairs!
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