Posted June 7, 2015 8:05 PM ET; Last updated June 15, 2015 8:49 PM ET
[From article]
With Syria’s bloody four-year-old civil war raging just over the border, Israeli doctors have emerged as crucial caregivers to war-wounded citizens from
Israel’s hostile neighbor, regardless of whether they are women, children or even fighters —
regardless of who they fought for. And the treatment is all given on Israel’s dime.
“The staff here don’t ask them who they are or who they belong to because once they step into the hospital, the policy is humanitarian aid,” said Linda Futterman of the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, one of four Israeli hospitals that treat war-injured Syrian residents and fighters before returning them to Syria with the assistance of Israel Defense Forces.
For the patients, it often means the difference between life, limb and death: Few Syrian facilities have the capability to treat critical blast wounds, and many of the world’s leading trauma physicians can be found in Israel less than an hour’s drive away from the Syrian battlefields.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/kimberly_atkins/2015/06/atkins_4_israeli_hospitals_treat_all_even_syrian
Atkins: 4 Israeli hospitals treat all, even Syrian fighters
Monday, June 15, 2015
By: Kimberly Atkins
Boston Herald
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[From article]
Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) provides pediatric heart surgery and follow-up care for indigent children regardless of race, religion, sex, color, or financial status. Based in Israel, the organization’s mission is “to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from countries where the heart surgery they need is unobtainable.”
[. . .]
Roughly 50 percent of those treated by the group at the Wolfson Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Holon are Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza.
But, Google news reports on Israel and you won’t find any coverage in the mainstream press about Israel’s compassion for children around the world and next door in the West Bank and Gaza. The State of Israel –as evidenced by its efforts most recently in Nepal– and Israeli-based organizations such as Save a Child’s Heart indeed demonstrate the size of Israel’s heart. And yet… Where’s the coverage?
http://blog.camera.org/archives/2015/05/wheres_the_coverage_cardiologi.html
May 28, 2015
Where's the Coverage? Cardiologists in Israel Save the Lives of Children from 50 Countries and Counting
Atkins: 4 Israeli hospitals treat all, even Syrian fighters
Monday, June 15, 2015
By: Kimberly Atkins
Boston Herald
* * *
[From article]
Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) provides pediatric heart surgery and follow-up care for indigent children regardless of race, religion, sex, color, or financial status. Based in Israel, the organization’s mission is “to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from countries where the heart surgery they need is unobtainable.”
[. . .]
Roughly 50 percent of those treated by the group at the Wolfson Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Holon are Palestinians from the West Bank or Gaza.
But, Google news reports on Israel and you won’t find any coverage in the mainstream press about Israel’s compassion for children around the world and next door in the West Bank and Gaza. The State of Israel –as evidenced by its efforts most recently in Nepal– and Israeli-based organizations such as Save a Child’s Heart indeed demonstrate the size of Israel’s heart. And yet… Where’s the coverage?
http://blog.camera.org/archives/2015/05/wheres_the_coverage_cardiologi.html
May 28, 2015
Where's the Coverage? Cardiologists in Israel Save the Lives of Children from 50 Countries and Counting
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