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Despite the praise given to Israel in Haiti by press around the
world, the UK media and the BMJ remained silent. 250 IDF doctors, nurses,
technicians, engineers, along with medical imaging equipment set up a
field hospital in under 8 hours. Israel was asked to help control the
rioting in some of the areas of Haiti and sent Israeli Police to join the
UN Stabilization Mission to keep order. According to US media, Israel was
the only hospital able to save the lives of people who were suffering from
necrosis. It was the IsrAID Cholera Clinic in Leogane, Haiti, which
received UN Delegation, sending 200,000 doses of cholera medication. It
was also Israel that opened a permanent trauma centre in Cap-Haitien,
Haiti's second largest city with over one million residents. Israel is
frequently one of the first to offer humanitarian aid, yet is never
reported.
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Despite the praise given to Israel in Haiti by press around the
world, the UK media and the BMJ remained silent. 250 IDF doctors, nurses,
technicians, engineers, along with medical imaging equipment set up a
field hospital in under 8 hours. Israel was asked to help control the
rioting in some of the areas of Haiti and sent Israeli Police to join the
UN Stabilization Mission to keep order. According to US media, Israel was
the only hospital able to save the lives of people who were suffering from
necrosis. It was the IsrAID Cholera Clinic in Leogane, Haiti, which
received UN Delegation, sending 200,000 doses of cholera medication. It
was also Israel that opened a permanent trauma centre in Cap-Haitien,
Haiti's second largest city with over one million residents. Israel is
frequently one of the first to offer humanitarian aid, yet is never
reported.
Competing interests: No competing interests