Israeli cargo planes took off for Poland on Thursday carrying 17 tons of equipment for the construction of the country’s “Kochav Meir” (Shining Star) field hospital in western Ukraine.
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Earlier this week, a medical delegation left for the area to assess the situation and start preparing the site. Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals from across the Israeli health system will participate in the endeavor.
The field hospital is being co-funded by the State of Israel, the Schusterman Foundation and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. It is being overseen by experts from Sheba Medical Center.
Approximately 21 million shekels ($6.5 million) is being invested in establishing the facility, which is expected to treat around 100 patients per day. The hospital is to be named after the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, who was born in Ukraine.
The hospital will provide care to Ukrainian refugees, and will include a delivery room, It will also run a laboratory and X-ray machines. The staff on the ground will be working with Sheba Beyond remote medical center to be able to access the expertise of Israeli doctors overseas.
mi k’amcha yisrael! May Hashem watch over our brothers and sisters as they risk their lives for the sake of others.
BH it’s a big kiddush HASHEM, they should succeed in healing people towards a full recovery.
This happened on the 21st day after the invasion.
Another day of pure bloody murder by Tsar Pootin, the genius.
Seventeen tons, call it 16,000 kilograms. One 40′ shipping container on US roads can haul 20,000 kilograms. So Israel in this example seems to be sending one shipping container of aid.
Thanks.