ICEJ provides life-saving equipment for one of Israel’s top medical centers
Published on: 8.5.2023
By Annaliese Johnson

Israel is widely known today for its advanced medical facilities and research centers, to the point that many foreigners come here as “medical tourists” to receive treatments in Israeli hospitals. But sometimes these hospitals run short on key medical equipment needed just to serve Israel’s own growing population.
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Recently, the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem provided life-saving equipment to the emergency room of the Kaplan Medical Center, one of Israel’s leading and busiest hospitals, located in the city of Rehovot. Kaplan’s emergency room is considered the “heartbeat” of the hospital.

The Kaplan Medical Center was originally formed out of army barracks in 1953 to serve 50,000 residents, but now it provides services for approximately one million Israelis. Currently run by Dr. Tarif Bader, a highly respected medical professional from the Druze community, the hospital serves many Holocaust survivors, forty percent of the Ethiopian Jewish community in Israel, a significant portion of the country’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, and various minority groups. In addition to providing services for Israel’s diverse population, the hospital also treats Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Tarif is no stranger to high influxes of patients and trauma. Prior to his role at the hospital, he served in the Israel Defense Forces, where he was responsible for the medical care offered to wounded Syrians crossing the Israeli border during the Syrian civil war. (This was part of the IDF’s “Operation Good Neighbor” initiative which the ICEJ also participated in.) However, with the steadily growing population within Israel, the emergency room at Kaplan hospital needed to acquire and upgrade certain missing or old equipment to properly care for their patients.

Thanks to your generous donations, the ICEJ was able to donate a blood warmer and three defibrillators. The blood warmer, which can warm blood to body temperature in 35 seconds, helps greatly with saving lives every day. Meantime, the defibrillators give off electric impulses that can be the difference between life and death, as in seconds they can revitalize the lives of individuals suffering from cardiac arrest.

The final gift, a special lighting needed for surgical procedures, will soon arrive. For victims of car accidents and other traumas whose care requires focused and specific lighting, this device is a game changer. Prior to this donation, surgeons were sometimes left with no alternative but to use phone flashlights as they dealt with these injuries.

“We really, really thank you. The equipment is really easy to use. And it helps us save lives”, assured Dr. Arkadi Shkaliar, the doctor in charge of the emergency room.

Indeed, these gifts help reduce the doctors’ stress, while the ease of operating the devices helps ensure critical and timely care for all patients who enter the emergency room. In addition, in response to a severe shortage of qualified medical professionals in Israel, the ICEJ is sponsoring a recertification program for new immigrant doctors which brings more medical professionals into the field. We are proud to help improve medical services in Israel, as well as to contribute towards bridging urgent personnel gaps that can aid in preventing burn-out of dedicated Israeli medical professionals.

These contributions to Israel’s medical field are part of the ICEJ’s “Future and Hope” initiative, which seeks to provide aid and assistance to every sector of Israeli society in practical and meaningful ways – whether old or young, Jew or Arab, native-born or new arrival.

ICEJ為以色列的頂級醫療中心之一提供救命設備
發表於：8.5.2023
作者：Annaliese Johnson

今天，以色列因其先進的醫療設施和研究中心而廣為人知，以至於許多外國人作為「醫療遊客」來到這裡，在以色列醫院接受治療。但是，有時這些醫院僅僅為了服務以色列自己不斷增長的人口而缺少所需的關鍵醫療設備。

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最近，耶路撒冷國際基督徒大使館向卡普蘭醫療中心的急診室提供了拯救生命的設備，卡普蘭醫療中心是位於雷霍沃特市的以色列領先和最繁忙的醫院之一。卡普蘭的急診室被認為是醫院的「心臟」。

卡普蘭醫療中心最初於1953年在軍營中成立，為5萬名居民服務，但現在它為大約100萬以色列人提供服務。目前，該醫院由德魯茲社區備受尊敬的醫療專家塔里夫-貝德（Tarif Bader）博士管理，為許多大屠殺生還者、以色列40%的埃賽俄比亞猶太人社區、該國相當一部分極端正統的猶太人以及各種少數民族群體提供服務。除了為以色列的多元化人口提供服務外，該醫院還為來自加沙地帶的巴勒斯坦人提供治療。

塔里夫醫生對大量湧入的病人和外傷並不陌生。在醫院任職之前，他曾在以色列國防軍服役，在敘利亞內戰期間，他負責為穿越以色列邊境的敘利亞傷患提供醫療服務。(這是以色列國防軍的「睦鄰行動」的一部分，ICEJ也參與其中）。然而，隨著以色列境內人口的穩步增長，卡普蘭醫院的急診室需要購買和升級某些缺失或陳舊的設備，以適當地照顧他們的病人。

感謝你們的慷慨捐贈，ICEJ能夠捐贈一個血液加熱器和三個除顫器。血液加熱器，可以在35秒內將血液加熱到體溫，對每天拯救生命有很大幫助。同時，除顫器發出的電脈衝可能是生命和死亡之間的區別，因為在幾秒鐘內，它們可以使遭受心臟驟停的人恢復生命。

最後一份禮物，即外科手術所需的特殊照明，將很快到來。對於車禍和其他創傷的受害者來說，他們的護理需要集中和特定的照明，這個設備是一個遊戲規則的改變者。在這次捐贈之前，外科醫生在處理這些傷害時，有時只能使用手機手電筒。

「我們真的，真的感謝你們。這些設備真的很容易使用。它幫助我們拯救生命」，急診室的主管醫生Arkadi Shkaliar博士保證說。

事實上，這些禮物有助於減少醫生的壓力，而設備的簡易操作有助於確保對所有進入急診室的病人進行關鍵和及時的護理。此外，為了應對以色列合格的醫療專業人員的嚴重短缺，ICEJ正在為新的移民醫生贊助一個重新認證的計畫，使更多的醫療專業人員進入這個領域。我們很榮幸能夠幫助改善以色列的醫療服務，以及為彌補緊急的人事差距作出貢獻，這可以幫助防止以色列專業醫療人員的流失。

這些對以色列醫療領域的貢獻是ICEJ的「未來和希望」倡議的一部分，該倡議旨在以實際和有意義的方式向以色列社會的每一個部門提供援助和協助，無論是老人還是年輕人，猶太人還是阿拉伯人，本地出生的還是新來的。