This auxiliary missionary (Hulpzendingsziekenhuis) hospital of Balige was established in 1916 in the Batak country. It received subsidy for the foundation in that year of ƒ 5471,70 and for its first equipment of ƒ 1,000. It was a small hospital in category I, 10 – 25 beds. In 1930 its size had been adapted to 75 beds, whereas the occupancy was much higher: 131 beds. In that year an amount of ƒ 32,156 was received (Indisch Verslag 1930, 385).
Balige was the main town of the sub department Toba, department Bataklanden, Residency of Tapanoeli, West Coast of Sumatra. The town is situated on the Toba-lake (Gonggryp 1934, 72).
Nowadays (2018), the owner of the Rumah Sakit Umum HKBP Balige, is the Huria Kristen Batak protestant Health Foundation. The hospital has nowadays a capacity of 134 beds, is classified as a category C hospital (reg.code 1205061). Its place of establishment is at Balige, Jalan Gereja no.17(coordinates: Latitude: 2,33 and Longitude: 99,07). The website of the hospital is: http://www.rshkbpbalige.or.id.
Among other stories a short history is told of the very beginning of this hospital as a dysentery barrack:
In 1909 there was a very dangerous dysentery epidemic in Tanah Batak, the victims were mainly in the Humbang area.
To fight this epidemic the government and Zending worked together to build wards, including in Pangaribuan, Butar and
Dolok Sanggul and Zending worked on treatment and care, Epidemic it also spreads to the Toba highlands.
This has made the work of doctors at the Main Hospital in Tarutung more widespread, therefore "Isolir Barake" was establishe in the Toba area, namely Balige.
On August 1, 1918 "Isolir Barake" in Balige was decided by the Auxiliary Hospital or what was known as the Balige HKBP
Hospital, led by K.H. WEISSENBRUCH (a misinar at the Zending Balige station), with a capacity of 10 people.
Historical Hospitals 