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In an effort to strengthen humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian people, next week the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Health will send an Israeli medical delegation to Ukraine, which will establish a field hospital there. The field hospital will be operated through Sheba Medical Center, Clalit Health Services and medical staffs of additional hospitals. The Field Hospital of the State of Israel will operate in Ukraine hospitalization departments for children and adults, an emergency room, a delivery room and a primary care clinic. Field Hospital will also make use of advanced technologies of remote medicine.
- Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz: “We are carrying out our moral duty, increasing humanitarian aid and extending assistance to the Ukrainian people. The Ministry of Health has sent planes with medical equipment and medicines, and now we will also build a field hospital to assist refugees in the field. The Ministry of Health and the State of Israel Thank you to Sheba Medical Center, Clalit Health Fund and all medical staff from all over the country who once again demonstrate courage and dedication to save lives anywhere in the world. The State of Israel has someone to trust and something to be proud of. ”
- Director of Sheba Medical Center, Prof. Yitzhak Kreis: “It is our personal, professional and national duty towards every person as far as he is a person. We have the means and the ability and we must not stand against it.”
- Ruth Ralbag, General Manager of Health Services: “As part of the emerging delegation to take care of refugees in Ukraine, Clalit undertook the treatment of children by the excellent staff of Schneider Hospital. Clalit
You will be integrated with additional assistance with all of our hospitals that were immediately mobilized and the delegation will be joined by additional medical teams according to the needs on the ground. “