RELATED:IDF to create flying, swimming field hospitalsIn Haiti: 'This is the spirit of the IDF'A five-strong Israeli team “is setting up the surgery right now,” the ambassador said.“They are evaluating the needs today so that a larger team can be dispatched.”Ben Shitrit confirmed that Israel was also providing tons of aid assistance – including mattresses, blankets, coats, gloves and chemical toilets – for some of the half-million people who are homeless, many of them now living in public facilities.“I don’t know how or why it is that our field hospital is the first,” the ambassador said.“Maybe we moved faster.Maybe it’s because of our experience.”He said the medical crisis would take a long time to resolve, but he believed the Japanese government would bring the situation under control in the coming weeks.Appreciation for Israel’s help, he said, was clear in the reporting in the Japanese media and in the grateful response of people in the field.Asked whether Israel had provided any assistance in grappling with the difficulties affecting Japanese nuclear facilities, Ben Shitrit said no.“That’s an issue for the Japanese and the Americans only,” he said.
Israel first to set up field hospital in Japan
Surgery established at Minamisanriko, fishing city devastated by quake; Israel also providing aid for the homeless.
RELATED:IDF to create flying, swimming field hospitalsIn Haiti: 'This is the spirit of the IDF'A five-strong Israeli team “is setting up the surgery right now,” the ambassador said.“They are evaluating the needs today so that a larger team can be dispatched.”Ben Shitrit confirmed that Israel was also providing tons of aid assistance – including mattresses, blankets, coats, gloves and chemical toilets – for some of the half-million people who are homeless, many of them now living in public facilities.“I don’t know how or why it is that our field hospital is the first,” the ambassador said.“Maybe we moved faster.Maybe it’s because of our experience.”He said the medical crisis would take a long time to resolve, but he believed the Japanese government would bring the situation under control in the coming weeks.Appreciation for Israel’s help, he said, was clear in the reporting in the Japanese media and in the grateful response of people in the field.Asked whether Israel had provided any assistance in grappling with the difficulties affecting Japanese nuclear facilities, Ben Shitrit said no.“That’s an issue for the Japanese and the Americans only,” he said.