Yad Sarah to receive emergency COVID aid, takes aim at Health Ministry

• Published date: 27 September 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Some 120 Yad Sarah branches will receive the emergency shipment which was given by Yad Sarah donors in Israel and the United States.

Yad Sarah, the largest volunteer organization in Israel, also stated the "helplessness" of the Health Ministry is why the aid is desperately needed.

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"The Health Ministry decided to take an ostrich approach of ignoring the urgent and immediate need to supply respiratory equipment to those hospitalized at home to prevent overloads at hospitals," said Yad Sarah director-general Moshe Cohen.

"The overloading at hospitals reached its peak since the start of the fourth wave with an unprecedented number of patients hospitalized," added Cohen.

Cohen then called on Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz to have talks with Yad Sarah...