{"id":4498,"date":"2018-04-18T15:06:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2018-04-18T15:24:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T19:24:21","slug":"of-saving-lives-and-beeping-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezermizion.org\/blog\/of-saving-lives-and-beeping-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Saving Lives and Beeping Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meir Quinn, Director of Linked to Life Saving Lives around the Globe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mazel tov\u2019s were resounding in room after room as newborns arrived to the joy of their families. But one room was quiet. A new baby was born but something was wrong. It seemed to be a heart defect. The doctors conferred.\u00a0\u00a0 Top Israeli pediatric cardiologists were called in for consultations<\/strong>. The defect was a rare one and none of the specialists<\/strong> had any experience with it. A solution had to be found soon. Rabbi Shimon Rogoway, Director of Ezer Mizion\u2019s Medical Referral<\/strong> Department, was brought into the picture. \u201cYes, I do know of a doctor<\/strong> who has experience in this type of defect but he\u2019s in Boston. We need to get Meir Quinn involved.\u201d Meir Quinn is the Director of Ezer Mizion\u2019s Linked to Life, a WhatsApp group that networks to produce emergency rides to the hospital, get vital meds from here to there etc. etc. Linked to Life has members in almost every Jewish community<\/strong> on the planet.\u00a0 In moments, a posting went out: Urgent! Need to get medical disc from Haifa to Boston for consultation. Phones beeped and responses came in. Sara from Haifa picked up the disc and delivered to Naftali who was traveling to Bnei Brak. Naftali passed it to Shmuel in Bnei Brak who delivered it to Ronnie who was flying to Boston. Leah picked it up from Ronnie and within hours delivered the precious disc to the doctor<\/strong>.\u00a0 Soon cautious mazel tov\u2019s will be heard in the infant\u2019s room as a course for treatment is set up. As this tiny human being matures to adulthood he will never be aware of how many people around the globe rushed to his aid, each one playing his part in saving the life<\/strong> of a fellow Jew.
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Saving Lives around the Globe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ezer Mizion, whose logo incorporates the words: \u201cChoosing Life\u201d and whose\u00a0 prime division, its Bone Marrow Registry, \u00a0has been saving lives<\/strong> since 1998, is always happy to cooperate with other organizations in facilitating a life-saving<\/strong> procedure.<\/p>\n

We were grateful for the opportunity to do so when a call came in to the New York office from Renewal, a non-profit dedicated to assisting people suffering from various forms of kidney disease. A patient was desperately in need of a kidney transplant. A potential donor had been located in Ashdod but further testing was needed before the transplant could take place. Blood samples had to be drawn and delivered within 24 hours to the lab in New York. Various entities in Israel had been contacted but none were able to do so even though full payment for expedited service was offered. That is when the anxious call came from Renewal to the Ezer Mizion NY office. Can we help?<\/p>\n

With Ezer Mizion\u2019s Linked2Life program already in place, helping was simple. Even the 24-hour framework was a challenge but not insurmountable.\u00a0 Ezer Mizion’s \u00a0“Linked to Life” knows how to get things done, with the help of the volunteers’ huge hearts, even in cases where financial and bureaucratic \u2018bumps on the road\u2019 abound.<\/p>\n

Ezer Mizion’s International Bone Marrow Donor Registry provided the specialized blood tubes and complex paperwork for international transport. A volunteer<\/strong>, a nurse by profession, responded to the first request to draw the blood in Ashdod right after Shabbos was over. A second volunteer<\/strong> made a special trip to Ben Gurion Airport to deliver the test tubes to a third volunteer<\/strong>, who took them to New York. Within less than 24 hours, another international Linked to Life campaign was crowned with success.<\/p>\n

Want to join? No matter where you live on the globe SMS: 011 972 52 580 8936<\/p>\n

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