Members of the Hadassah delegation who went to the refugee camp on the Ukrainian-Polish border experience special and sad moments, and on the other hand are privileged to save lives and provide medical assistance to thousands of refugees who have lost their homes and homeland
Posted on: 3/16/22 1:42 PM
Russia-Ukraine War: Members of the Hadassah delegation in the refugee camp on the Ukrainian-Polish border experience special and sad moments, and on the other hand are privileged to save lives and provide medical assistance to thousands of refugees who have lost their homes and homeland. Dr. Shaul Bate, Orthopedic Specialist and Deputy Head of the Orthopedic Surgery Unit, Dr. Yaarit Rybak Levy, Internal Medicine and Immunology Specialist, Dr. Assaf Keidar, Surgeon and Trauma Specialist and Head of the Hadassah Mount Scopus Trauma Unit, were the head of the pioneer who came to examine the area. Together with Jorge Dianer, CEO of Hadassah International, and define to the hospital management, the board of directors and the Hadassah Women’s Organization what is required to assist refugees.
They even met with the management of the Great University Hospital in Lublin, Poland, and began training the staff for extensive trauma incidents from their experience dealing with major incidents with dozens of wounded known to the city of Jerusalem and the Hadassah Trauma Unit.
(Photo: Hadassah Spokeswoman)
They were followed in recent days by other members of the delegation, including Dana Ben-Best, the emergency nurse, Natan Loifman, a brother of the Department of Vascular Surgery and a native of Ukraine, Dr. Alex Gills, a pediatric pulmonary disease specialist and director of the sleep lab, Dr. Yuval Gutbir, Pediatrician and R. Meir Cherniak, an infectious disease specialist.
It should be noted that the staff’s hands are full of work, which they perform with dedication and shifts around the clock.
“Meir and Dana treated Grandma with a leaking stoma, that is, an artificial opening made in the abdominal wall, which became infected and from which she suffered greatly,” says Dr. Alex Gills. ‘She was scared, she saw the anxiety in her eyes. After the initial treatment with their hands, they evacuated her to a hospital for treatment when she was a little more relaxed and at ease. At the same time, I was just treating a child with a suspicion of appendicitis to his mother who insisted on not taking him to the hospital. My diagnosis was pretty well-founded, but I understood to her heart. At first he received painkillers from me and was sent for supervision with an instruction to return to me when it got worse. Despite my suspicion, his mother was probably very frightened and wanted to wait a bit before his evacuation to the hospital, and indeed, he was returned after half an hour by the grandmother, who is a surgical nurse who said the child thinks she has appendicitis and she agrees with me. And in another case, when I examined a frightened 7-year-old boy with some abdominal pain, he was shaking with anxiety and said his name was Sasha. I said to me too, and I almost cried in front of him. ‘
The many human moments from the bloody battlefield testify to what is happening. Nina, a 76-year-old Ukrainian citizen, was forced to leave her home in Zhytomyr to escape and survive the inferno.
She told Dr. Yaarit Rybak, an internal medicine specialist who treated her in the refugee camp, that until the last minute she did not want to leave her home but when the shelling became very frequent and one of the rockets exploded near her home, she realized she had nothing left to do but try to leave Zhitomir. Save her life.
“Nina was taken out of the car by other residents of Zhytomyr, who also fled the bombing, smuggled to the Ukrainian border with Poland, and thus reached the refugee center,” Hadassah said. “She was evacuated to the Red Cross Medical Assistance Unit, where she was evacuated due to severe back pain, which worsened after a long non-stop ride in a car full of people.”
When asked by the doctor from Hadassah who treated her for a few days at the camp, where she was going, Nina replied that she was going to Prague, where she would be received by the family of her daughter’s friend – people Nina had never seen or known anything about until now. “I’ve never been to Prague before,” she said in tears of pain. “I hope to return to my home in Zhitomir one day, if there is anything left of it.”
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