Death All Around, But Israel Brings Life and Rescue to Desperate Frantic Haitians
10 a.m. Shabbos a Israeli Field Hospital was set up
The large field hospital established by the IDF Medical Corps at 10 a.m. Shabbat local time was already treating dozens of patients four hours later, when its commander, Lt.-Col. Dr. Itzik Reiss, was able to take a breather and speak to Israeli health reporters via a conference call. Children with severe fractures set only with cardboard arrived at the hospital for treatment. Some young patients had been freed from rubble but had to have limbs amputated due to severe gangrene, he said. Within a few hours, operations were performed.The hospital has an emergency room, pediatric, orthopedic, internal medicine, obstetrics and surgery departments, clinics and other facilities. The delivery room and premature baby unit are prepared to function but have not yet received any women or infants.
Shabbos in Port-au-Prince … ZAKA saving lives
and making a Kiddush Hashem
"The people here see it as very important that the State of Israel has come to help," said Mati Goldstein, commander of the ZAKA mission to Haiti. A rescue team made up of religious volunteers, has been working overtime in the quake-stricken Haitian capital of Port au-Prince.
"There was not really a Shabbat, but on Friday night we said Kiddush with delegations from Mexico, England, and Scotland …."With all the hell going on outside, even when things get bad Judaism says we must take a deep breath and go on to save more people." […] "We did everything to save lives, despite Shabbat. People asked, 'Why are you here? There are no Jews here', but we are here because the Torah orders us to save lives… We are desecrating Shabbat with pride."
Goldstein said cooperation between the international teams, which had arrived from 30 different states, was strengthened by the Sabbath prayer. "We sat with Jordanian security guards, an Israeli team, and people from Qatar and Egypt. It was strange."
…. He added that despite his experience in aiding in disasters worldwide, the scene of the 7.0-magnitude quake was one of the worst he had observed. "I've been to Mumbai, and several other terror attacks, but it's really hellish here."
The Israeli delegation to Haiti has managed to rescue a survivor trapped under the rubble, four days after a strong earthquake rocked the country.
Gilles, a Tax Authority worker who sent a text message with a sign of life from his cellular phone. Gilles has a 20-year-old daughter and a wife. They both live in Connecticut and still think he is under the rubble. The rescue forces dispatched to the area found equipment believed to be left behind by another rescue team, which left after failing to locate the survivor….Major Zohar Moshe, the rescue force's commander, explained that the team began attending to the survivor before he was completely removed from under the rubble. "The moment we managed to break the wall, we began treating him while continuing the rescue efforts," he said. After many efforts, the rescuers managed to attach an infusion to his body ...."When Gilles was removed on a stretcher, exhausted and covered with dust, the residents outside clapped their hands and shouted, 'We love Israel," added Major Moshe.
Life-Saving and Life-Giving Israelis to the Rescue:
Baby Born in Israeli Field Hospital
"Amid all the death around us," the doctor said, "it is very symbolic." He added that childbirth in Haiti doesn't usually take place in a hospital in the impoverished country, and that this particular woman received the best care from the best doctors. "She was very quiet," he said. "At first it wasn't even clear that she was in labor."
Sources from several posts on: VosizNeias
Sources from several posts on: VosizNeias
UPDATE
Only Operating Room in Haiti is Israeli Field Hospital
Special Photos Courtesy of Yeshiva World News
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