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In a complex operation: Israir returns a 3-year-old cancer patient to Israel Israel today

2020-04-23T10:22:29.684Z


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Against all odds: The boy's family was notified that there were several hours to bring him back to Israel • Israeli aircraft waited on the ground at the CEO's order until the boy arrived

Israel's routine rescue flight from Frankfurt, Germany, returned to Israel yesterday. On the flight was a 3-year-old cancer patient who spent the last two months in Vienna, Austria, where he received special treatment that does not exist in Israel. The boy's return to the country was made thanks to the incredible harnessing of systems and people who did the unbelievable and contrary to all odds.

The man behind this complex operation is Shmulik Pollak, director of the Yad Vazar organization, which accompanies families who come to Austria for special treatments. Shmulik talks about the complex operation, "The special treatments in Austria do not exist in Israel. In this case, this is a 3-year-old boy who started chemotherapy in Tel Hashomer and moved to Austria for two and a half months. You're the child to Israel today and only today.

These days of course there are no flights and once the message was received from the hospital, the race began to find a solution to bring it back to Israel. "We found a flight from Vienna to Frankfurt and an Israeli flight from Frankfurt to Israel, but the connection was not enough. , He told me. We were also asked to do a corona test and within an hour and a half we received answers that the child has no corona. In the meantime, 6 luggage of the family disappeared at the airport there, causing further delay as this is one of the largest airports in the world, you will look for 6 luggage in such a huge place. Ishraer ground crews turned the airport over to find them and the plane was waiting all this time, "adds Folk.

Israeli law says the child should go into a hotel isolation and Polk says, "It's a terrible thing for him - the boy couldn't get through it." The "Medicine and Joy" organization intervened and harnessed the Foreign Ministry, Home Front Command, Ministry of Health officials. After landing, an ambulance of medicine and joy awaited them and returned them to the Israeli hospital. "The professionals in Austria said we had no chance of finding a solution to bring it back to Israel - we proved to them that the people of Israel were alive and everything was possible," Polk concluded.

A few hours after the end of the operation, the Yad Vazar organization began an additional and equally complex operation in which two additional children who received treatment in Austria are expected to return to Israel.

Source: israelhayom

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