{"id":1923,"date":"2010-11-30T19:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2011-05-18T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T12:30:13","slug":"israel-in-the-time-of-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/11\/30\/israel-in-the-time-of-cholera\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel in the Time of Cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you thought Israel\u2019s medical mission to Haiti after the earthquake was just PR then think again.<\/p>\n

There has been a continuous presence there since January this year and now, as the JP reports<\/a>, in response to the cholera epidemic, Israel is sending a medical unit.<\/p>\n

Israel has joined other countries in efforts to help disaster-stricken Haiti with its cholera epidemic and will open a new intensive care unit in the north of the island, reported Israel Radio on Thursday.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

The Foreign Ministry’s humanitarian aid unit has gathered the necessary equipment for the project and will begin transferring it to Haiti in the coming weeks.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/em>UN Undersecretary for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos said Haiti needs at least a hundred doctors and a thousand nurses to deal with the epidemic. More than 1,000 people have died in Haiti since the outbreak of Cholera five weeks ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A year after the earthquake there is little sign of rebuilding. No-one is blockading Haiti and there are no smuggling tunnels to the Dominican Republic. The situation is truly disgraceful and an indictment of the priorities of the UN.<\/p>\n

As usual, when it comes to international aid efforts, Israel punches above its weight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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If you thought Israel\u2019s medical mission to Haiti after the earthquake was just PR then think again. There has been a continuous presence there since January this year and now, as the JP reports, in response to the cholera epidemic, Israel is sending a medical unit. Israel has joined other countries in efforts to help […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[715,1143,4,745],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cholera","tag-haiti","tag-israel","tag-medical-team","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2853,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raymondcook.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}