DoubleTapper: Pictures of IDF in Haiti

Pictures of IDF in Haiti

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1,111 patients were treated,

317 surgeries were preformed,

and

16 births took place

at the

IDF field hospital in Haiti

DoubleTapper: Pictures of IDF in Haiti

DoubleTapper: IDF Delegation in Haiti Packs up to return to Israel

IDF Delegation in Haiti Packs up to return to Israel

The IDF aid delegation dismantled the field hospital built in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti today. Patients needing further care were transferred to other delegations while tents and beds were taken apart.

The head of the medical team, Colonel Doctor Itzik Kryce then spoke to the entire delegation during the final roll call. He described the pride he felt seeing the success of the mission and emphasized the importance of representing Israel and the IDF’s values in Haiti. The roll call ends with the delegation singing the Israeli national anthem, “Hatikva,” the hope.

1,111 patients were treated,

317 surgeries were preformed,

and

16 births took place

at the

IDF field hospital in Haiti

DoubleTapper: IDF Delegation in Haiti Packs up to return to Israel

DoubleTapper: IDF Haiti Delegation to Return to Israel on Thursday

IDF Haiti Delegation to Return to Israel on Thursday

IDF Medical and Rescue Team Concludes Mission in Haiti

Delegation to Return to Israel on Thursday

The IDF medical and rescue team in Haiti will finish its operations in the next few days and its members will return to Israel by Thursday, after completing its mission in the region. The decision came following the arrival of additional aid forces to Haiti, including the United States military and other, civilian aid, who are now providing regular medical services. Furthermore, many of the local hospitals have reached a sufficient level of functionality.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 26th, the team is scheduled to cease receiving new patients and begin preparing towards returning to Israel on a direct flight on Wednesday. The delegation is scheduled to arrive at the Ben Gurion Airport by Thursday afternoon.

A few dozen patients treated at the IDF field hospital were already transferred to the American hospital in Haiti, and others will be transferred to additional medical facilities.

Part of the equipment brought by the delegation will remain in Haiti for use by the various medical personnel, including tents, medications and other medical equipment. Heavy equipment will be brought back to Israel.

The IDF Medical and Rescue team, including personnel and equipment for setting up a field hospital and a small rescue team, left for Haiti 11 days ago, on January 15th 2010, and had a significant role in providing aid to survivors of the earthquake.

During their stay in Haiti, the IDF delegation treated more than 960 patients, conducted 294 successful surgeries, delivered 16 births including three in caesarian sections and saved many from within the ruins.

In the last few days, after most rescue operations were concluded, much of the delegation’s efforts were turned to other forms of civilian assistance, including setting up water tanks assisting daily life, and more.

The IDF Medical Corps and Home Front Command will hold a series of briefings following the activity in Haiti in order to improve its preparedness for similar future events.

The IDF Chief of the General Staff approved the recommendation by his Deputy and by the OC Home Front Command to conclude the mission.


The IDF Medical Corps hospital in Haiti began transferring dozens of patients (orphans and premature babies) to the Italian hospital in Haiti and to the US Navy Ship, the ‘Comfort’.

From IDF Spox

DoubleTapper: IDF Haiti Delegation to Return to Israel on Thursday

DoubleTapper: Pictures from IDF Aid Mission in Haiti, 23 January 2010

Pictures from IDF Aid Mission in Haiti, 23 January 2010

IDF Major Doctor Yuval Levi transferring a premature baby born in the IDF field hospital to a local hospital in Haiti

The IDF continues to provide assistance to the local Haitian population. In this picture, Brigadier General Shalom Ben Aryeh, the commander of the delegation, and Major Zohar Moshe, one of the commanders of the (IDF SAR) search and rescue team who pulled a 22 year old man from the rubble of a 3 story building yesterday, stand next to the bed of the rescued man.

The IDF continues to provide assistance to the local Haitian population. In this picture, Brigadier General Shalom Ben Aryeh, the commander of the delegation, and Major Zohar Moshe, one of the commanders of the (IDF SAR) search and rescue team who pulled a 22 year old man from the rubble of a 3 story building yesterday, stand next to the bed of the rescued man.

The IDF delegation continues to provide assistance to the local Hatian population. In this picture an IDF SAR Trooper helps locals, left homeless by the earthquake, to erect tents and build temporary shelters.

The IDF delegation continues to provide assistance to the local Hatian population. In this picture an IDF SAR Trooper helps locals, left homeless by the earthquake, to erect tents and build temporary shelters.

DoubleTapper: Pictures from IDF Aid Mission in Haiti, 23 January 2010

DoubleTapper: Eyewitness Stories from the IDF Relief Mission in Haiti

Eyewitness Stories from the IDF Relief Mission in Haiti

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, the Russian delegation asked the Israeli "superpower" for medical equipment.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation to Haiti which is housed in tents, there are religious ZAKA volunteers. They deal with the severed limbs and bodies of the dead and wounded from Haiti. They do this because of their respect for the dead and their respect for the Haitian Creole speaker, voodoo worshiper in the Caribbean Sea at the edge of the Atlantic.

In the IDF Medical Corps Delegation which came from Israel in the Middle East to Haiti, there are American volunteer doctors. They have no other useful installation in which to work in. A doctor and nurse from Germany came. They heard this is best hospital in Haiti. An emergency room team from Colombia arrived with all their equipment and asked if they could set up next to us to be part of our hospital. England is the enlightened country in Europe, the one which has an academic boycott of Israel; twenty British doctors and nurses asked to work with us.

All these people, without exception, stand together at the morning formation at 7 AM in the flag square. The flag of Israel...

Lots more eyewitness stories from the IDF Relief Mission in Haiti here

DoubleTapper: Eyewitness Stories from the IDF Relief Mission in Haiti

DoubleTapper: IDF Field Hospital in Haiti Treats Children Rescued by USA SAR Team

IDF Field Hospital in Haiti Treats Children Rescued by USA SAR Team

January 21, 2010...17:01

Pictures from the Children’s Tent in the IDF Field Hospital in Haiti, 21 January 2010

A Medic at the IDF Field Hospital in Port-au-Prince Checks Up on an Injured Child

A Young Girl Sits in the Pediatric Department Tent of the IDF Field Hospital in Haiti

Children's Ward in the IDF Field Hospital in Haiti

The IDF field hospital in Haiti has a fully equipped childrens department with 9 pediatrics doctors, where the young victims of the earthquake which devastated Haiti over a week ago, are being treated. Dozens of children have been treated at the hospital, including two young siblings who were rescued from the rubble after seven days by an American search and rescue team. The brother and sister were in good condition, and were released from the Israeli field hospital later the same day.


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DoubleTapper: IDF Field Hospital in Haiti Treats Children Rescued by USA SAR Team

DoubleTapper: Reinforcements to IDF Haiti Releif Mission

Reinforcements to IDF Haiti Releif Mission

An additional IDF rescue and medical aid team departed to Haiti Monday night. Included are Home Front Command Major General Yair Golan, Director General of the Ministry of Health Dr. Eytan Chai-Am, and Surgeon General, Brigadier General Nachman Ash.

The team brings medicine and additional equipment and will examine the needs of the IDF medical staff on the scene.

DoubleTapper: Reinforcements to IDF Haiti Releif Mission

DoubleTapper: IDF in Haiti Receives Paise From International Press

IDF in Haiti Receives Paise From International Press

CNN has done a story praising Israel and the IDF for the medical aid they are providing in Haiti following the devastating earthquake.


The medical teams, all members of the Israel Defence Force, flew in all the equipment needed for conducting surgery and they were the only medical team to do so. The other field hospitals contain no more than stretcher beds and medical teams who administer first aid, and they are not prepared for complex surgery. As a result, all of the other medical aid units from other countries that arrived to help are sending patients with life-threatening injuries in need of operation to the Israeli field hospital. Israel's dedicated young men and women are working around the clock to save lives.

ABC praised the Israeli mission which had assisted a birth using a complicated procedure. The network’s reporter, himself a trained doctor, came across a woman on the point of giving birth. First he tried to assist, but when he discovered the baby was turned sideways, he knew there was trouble. This baby had to be born via C-section and even then there were risks. He consulted experts in the U.S. but they wrote back things like “this baby will be IMPOSSIBLE to deliver alive in Haiti.” Then he remembered the Israeli field hospital, called the Israeli consulate in New York and was directed to the IDF camp. The mother’s life, it turns out, was also in extreme danger as she was suffering from pre-eclampsia, the biggest killer of pregnant women in Haiti.

“I understood that they were looking for the Israeli mission,” said Joel Lion, Israeli consulate spokesman. “I called the military attaché in Washington to get the address of the mission… then, via Blackberry, I managed to get the coordinates and direct them there.”

When they arrived at the hospital, the young woman was taken in and eight hours later a healthy baby girl was born.

ABC reported extensively on the story and even sent a letter of thanks to the Israeli representative in New York. “They were very moving moments. It was amazing to be party to saving life and bringing a baby into the world. And most amazing was that it was all directed via a cell phone,” said Lion. “We will pass on the expressions of thanks to the doctors and the wonderful staff at the Israeli field hospital in Haiti.”

There are more than 100 patients awaiting surgery by the skilled hands of IDF doctors and nurses.

Another baby was born in the IDF Field hospital under life-threatening conditions –the mother named him Israel.

From CNN: “At a U.S. medical facility in Port-au-Prince, families were “with their loved ones who they were so excited to see alive, only now to watch them die a slow, painful death from their rotting flesh because the infections are out of control and they need surgery,” Furin said.
“I’ve been here since Thursday. No one except the Israeli hospital has taken any of our patients,” she told CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen.

Cohen visited the Israeli hospital and said it was “like another world,” with imaging equipment and other machinery. “They have actual operating rooms, and it’s just amazing.”

DoubleTapper: IDF in Haiti Receives Paise From International Press

DoubleTapper: News from IDF Delegation in Haiti

News from IDF Delegation in Haiti

IDF Search and Rescue teams on the scene in Haiti.

FoxNews interviews IDF doctors.



Update: 5:00 PM IDF Spox

Several hours ago, an IDF Search and Rescue team in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, rescued a 52 year old man from a collapsed building. It took roughly 6 hours to extract the man who had been trapped for four days. He had been able to communicate his location to rescue teams via sms. The man suffered from some lacerations on his limbs and dehydration, he was treated at the IDF field hospital next to the soccer field in Port-au-Prince, and is currently in good condition.

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DoubleTapper: News from IDF Delegation in Haiti

DoubleTapper: IDF Prepares for Haiti Relief

IDF Prepares for Haiti Relief

The delegation prepares to depart to Haiti at IDF Home Front Command Headquarters.

Col. Dr. Itzik Kryse MD, head of the Israeli medical team, briefs the troops.

Israel is doing all in its power to help the people of Haiti cope with the disaster in their country. A 220-person delegation, headed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials, will left Thursday evening (14 January 2009) for Port-au-Prince on two Boeing 747 jets leased from El Al by the IDF. The Israeli relief package includes IDF Home Front Command field hospital and search and rescue unit.

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DoubleTapper: IDF Prepares for Haiti Relief