Thursday, December 2, 2010

Special Rescue Operation: Israeli Medical Services bring home wounded Israeli from Thailand

About a week ago, a young Israeli man was severely injured in a road traffic accident in Thailand whilst riding a motobike*  MDA heard about the incident, and with the help of the Organisation of Friends of MDA in Australia, El Al and the Foreign Office, a team went out to bring the wounded young man home*  This morning he arrived in Tel Hashomer hospital.

A young 28 year old Israeli, who went on a trip to Thailand, was wounded about a week ago whilst riding on a motorbike.  He was taken in a critical condition to the local hospital, and after the operation that he had on his head, his condition continued to be critical.

Information about the accident and the condition of the young man reached the MDA Director General, Eli Bin, from an article published on the Ynet site whilst he was attending a conference of Friends of MDA which was held last week.

Immediately upon receiving this information the MDA Director General got to work in every possible way in order to help the young man, who set out for Thailand with no medical insurance, and to give him the best possible care and to bring him home for treatment in Israel.

Whilst doing so, the Director General turned for help to the head of the Australian Friends of MDA Organisation  with a request that they make an effort and give financial aid in order to bring the young wounded man home for treatment in Israel.  The head of the Organisation of Friends immediately agreed and promised to cover all the costs of flying the young man home to Israel and to pay for additional treatment he may need whilst still in Thailand.
At the same time, people in the Foreign Office also agreed to help, and they worked all the time to bring the young man home to Israel  as quickly as possible, and the Director General of El Al also agreed to help with the complicated medical flight needed to bring the young man home for treatment in Israel.

Last Monday (18.10) an MDA team set off, with a doctor and paramedic, on a special flight to the hospital in Thailand, where they met with the medical team who had been treating the injured young man, and they began preparations to enable them to fly the young man home.  Before the team left the hospital in Thailand, the people in the hospital gave the MDA team a letter and teddy bear to give to the wounded Israeli when he opened his eyes and recovered from his wounds.

MDA Director General said: "As soon as we learnt of the incident, MDA got to work to give medical aid to the young man.  An MDA medical team was immediately ready to go to Thailand, and with a complicated procedure, which entails use of advanced and expensive medical equipment, they brought the young man home for continued treatment in Israel.  There is no doubt that the tremendous aid given by all those involved in this task greatly helped the success of the operation."




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