In those days the area lacked any health care systems so the sisters built a small infirmary and gave health care services to the people of the city, the treatments were given to anyone regardless of his religion. In the year 1914 the European sisters had to leave and go back to their home lands, some of the people of Shefa-Amr asked for the infirmary to remain opened, because the head sister couldn't do that she asked the other sisters to evacuate the convent in order to let an another monastery occupy the place and rerun the infirmary. The sisters ordered 30 Camels from Haifa to move their stuff, when the camels arrived the men of the city asked them why they came for and then ordered them to go back. Then they went to the sisters and said "We don't want and infirmary, we don't want an a