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NEWS
Ezra Umarpeh Incubator Flown to India
by A. Cohen
An incubator for premature infants designed especially for
airplanes was flown last week by the Israel Air Force to
India to save an infant's life. The unit belongs to the Ezra
Umarpeh organization. The baby was born in the IDF field
hospital for victims of the earthquake in India. However,
doctors on the site lacked the equipment needed to treat
her. The doctors asked the IDF to help find a special
incubator which met flying conditions.
The Air Force turned to all the hospitals in the country,
but was told that only Ezra Umarpeh, with its record of
flying sick people abroad -- including premature infants --
had such an incubator.
The Air Force Commander approached Rabbi Elimelech Firrer,
chairman of the organization, who immediately complied with
the request. Within two hours the incubator was delivered to
an Air Force plane ready to take off from Ben Gurion
airport. Ezra Umarpeh volunteers assembled the incubator and
connected all of the necessary apparatus for the flight.
The incubator is one of the many pieces of equipment
available for loan to the public by Ezra Umarpeh's medical
lending department, which includes equipment worth more than
six million dollars.
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