haiti - israeli hospital

“The Delegation to Haiti” – A mail Sent by an IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) soldier in Haiti to his

parents in Israel.

In the lifesaving IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed

in tents, doctors prevent disabilities. They administer aid to the sick, provide warmth, love, and

a human touch. They love the wounded.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents located in the middle of a hell,

every complex medical case has an ethics review board.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed

in tents, the chances of success are debated whether to amputate

the entire leg of a child: the chances of a premature infant to survive while on a ventilator in a

preemie unit in the tent.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, there were no rods left to brace

complex fractures. Each rod costs 5000 Euros. Money is not the

problem. There simply isn't any. An emergency room paramedic together with an ordnance sergeant found a solution. He took similar rods to a local lathe shop where they made dozens of new rods. The hospital

continue to save lives.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, there is

a networked computer system for patient management and tracking. X-

rays taken in the radiation tent are viewed on a digital viewing system in

the orthopedic tent.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation which came from Israel in the Middle East to Haiti, there are American volunteer doctors. They have no other

useful facility in which to work in.

A doctor and nurse from Germany came, as they heard that this is the best hospital in Haiti.

An emergency room team from Colombia arrived with all their equipment and asked if they could

set up next to us, to be part of our hospital.

20 British doctors and sisters asked to work with us. England is the enlightened country in Europe, the one which has an academic boycott of Israel.

All these people, without exception, stand together at the morning

formation at 7 AM in the flag square. The Israeli flag. The flag of a country which was established after the USA was already superpower. After the

British left a land under their control. After Colombia was already an established country. After the

Holocaust against the Jewish people.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, the Russian delegation asked the Israeli

"superpower" for medical equipment.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is

housed in tents, ZAKA (Jewish religious volunteers) people deal

with the severed limbs and bodies of the dead and wounded from Haiti. They do this because of their respect for the dead and

their respect for the Haitian Creole speaker, voodoo

worshiper in the Caribbean Sea at the edge of the Atlantic.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents,

doctors ask permission to X-ray the Haitian wounds, yet the Haitian patients do not understand why

someone would ask them for such permission.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, there is

a shortage of plaster for casts. An innovative doctor spoke to a Haitian

hospital nurse for help, but the hospital could not help. He was sent to an remote neighborhood between the fetid alleys to the Moroccan embassy in Haiti. There, he found a storeroom full of plaster which was brought back to the hospital. The Israeli doctor, by

the way, is of Moroccan origin.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, there is a

delivery room. Babies are born there. Mothers are cared for. Babies that

require aid are admitted to the preemie unit.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, the badly wounded patients have plastic

surgery operations.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, the

patient's rights are kept. His right to privacy is respected. A patient's

condition is explained to him in the Creole language via an interpreter.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, there are equal rights among all. Equal rights in Haiti, which was a

nation of slaves, where even today there is a great social gap between

the rich and the poorest of the world's poor.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents.

The ultimate human ethics is composed. Brotherhood is at its prime.

The verse from the Bible "Love your neighbor as yourself” is materialized.

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