All People Get the Treatment Needed in Israel's Hospitals, Palestinians Included

Nadene Goldfoot                                       

Ahmad Abu Halima, a 4 year old boy from Gaza whose life was saved by Israeli doctors at Schneider Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel .  This story came out just December 9, 2020.  

 Ahmed originally came to the Israeli hospital with what appeared to be a tumor in his abdomen that was too large to remove, so he was prepared for chemotherapy. However, within a few days the child became very ill and it was found that the tumor was massively bleeding. In a series of complex operations, surgeons catheterized the many blood vessels that were connected to it while Ahmed was on a heart bypass.  

Now his parents need to pay for the Ahmed's hospitalization - but the Palestinian Authority refuses to pay for any medical procedures that happen in Israel.   (He had it done outside of the insurance's net, Americans might think.)  

So the hospital set up an account for Israelis to help pay for Ahmad's medical expenses. 

One would think that with all the supposed pride that Palestinians have, they would be embarrassed that Jews are paying for the medical expenses of a Palestinian. But honor is a weird thing - to Palestinian leaders, the bigger shame is to pay Israelis to help cure Palestinian kids. 

One must wonder, though, how come none of the tens of millions of dollars that pour from European countries and NGOs to fund anti-Israel organizations can be used to help people like Ahmad Abu Halima.  

Being pro-Palestinian seems to have little to do with actually caring about Palestinian lives. Even here all financing depends on the insurance coverage,  but these doctors have a heart.   

The point can be made that this  operation probably saved the child's life.  Israel is known to have the best doctors and hospitals.  The parents were wise to be able to go to Israel for their son's treatment.  Thanks, Victor, for pointing out this article to me.  

                                                       

Palestinian boy Hamza Ali Mohammad, 2, who was treated for congenital heart disease at the Wolfson Medical Center in Israel and separated from his family for two months because of the coronavirus lockdown, is held by a medical staff before he departs to Ramallah to reunite with his family | Photo: Reuters/Ronen Zvulun

Two-year-old Hamza Ali Mohammad from Ramallah was born with life-threatening congenital heart disease and underwent risky surgery at the Wolfson Medical Center. "The whole medical team became his parents," doctor says.  He was reunited on Thursday with his mother, who whisked him into her arms after he arrived in a van, escorted by medical personnel, at a checkpoint on the boundary between Israel and the West Bank.

          Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat, born 1955 in Abu Dis,  was a Palestinian politician and diplomat who was the Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO. He served as chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011.  the J 

JERUSALEM (AP) — Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat on Monday was in 

critical condition and breathing with a ventilator after his coronavirus infection 

worsened overnight, said the Israeli hospital treating him.

Hadassah Medical Center described Erekat’s case as extremely challenging given his history of health problems, including a lung transplant performed in the United

 States three years ago. It said he suffered from a weak immune system and a 

bacterial infection in addition to COVID-19. said Erekat, 65, was sedated and that its

 most senior doctors were consulting with international experts on how best to

 manage such a complicated case.  He passed away.

        

Ismail Haniyeh born 1962 in Gaza when it was occupied by the Egyptians.  

Ismail Haniyeh's daughter was admitted to a Tel Aviv hospital in 2014 after she suffered complications from a routine procedure. He is the Hamas leader. "Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh is a senior political leader of Hamas and formerly one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority. Haniyeh became prime minister after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006." 

In most cases a request by a Palestinian doctor to allow a patient across the border for urgent treatment was sufficient - indicating Haniyeh may not have been personally involved in his daughter’s application. During the war and since it ended in late August, dozens of patients from Gaza have been brought to hospitals in Israel, where the resources and technology for advanced treatment and complicated operations are vastly better.

These 2 Palestinian leaders, terrorists in their days a few years ago, managed to go to Israel's hospitals, but didn't help this 4 year old Palestinian boy.  Israel's hospitals are open to those who need her.                                                             

    Bnai Zion Hospital in Haifa.  

                                                            

Rambam Army Hospital in Haifa.  Today they have to use the parking lot for extra space in safety.  

I fell in Haifa in 1981 at the end of my first year there as a new Olim and was rushed in a friend's car to the nearest hospital, the army hospital in Haifa.  It took 3 doctors 3 hours to put back my right elbow that I had fallen on and the connecting bone that had broken in the fall, and had 6 metal pins placed in it to hold it together.  Two of the doctors were Americans.  I couldn't have picked a busier place, but then, who was picking?  When I went back later to see about taking out those temporary pins, they couldn't see me.  They explained that a war had started and they knew they were going to be a little too busy right then, to get back on the bus and home quickly to Safed.  They'd see me later.  I found out later that they were the best bone doctors in the land.  They told me that they had had a lot of practice.  

The Rambam Medical Center in Haifa (above)  was during the June 3, 2012 week dedicating a NIS 600 million, three-story underground facility, which in peacetime will serve as a parking lot with capacity for 1,400 vehicles and in wartime will function as a 2,000-bed hospital to service the entire northern region.

The unusual facility – in which beds, oxygen tanks, dialysis machines and a large variety of other equipment are stored within the walls – was made possible by a NIS 100 million donation by the late philanthropist Sammy Ofer, plus government matching funds and contributions from “friends” organizations. It will become totally operational in October.

Resource:

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-palestinian-authority-wont-pay-to.html

https://www.haaretz.com/haniyeh-s-daughter-hospitalized-in-israel-1.5317266

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh

https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/05/08/palestinian-boy-braves-surgery-alone-during-coronavirus-lockdown-in-israel/