For those who did not know: there is a special fund at the MDA that works for the welfare of Holocaust survivors. Established about 6 years ago in MDA with the aim of helping Holocaust survivors finance travel expenses In the ambulance in cases where the health fund does not cover the expenses.
The unique fund initiated by the MDA is intended to provide relief to the tens of thousands of survivors of the Second World War who live in Israel today and who suffer from physical, mental and severe economic hardships and need from time to time medical assistance and urgent evacuation in ambulances and intensive care vehicles of the MDA. The fund operates in light of these difficult data and out of a sense of shared responsibility and mutual guarantee for the generation that was saved from the inferno.
MDA reports that every year, MDA receives applications from Holocaust survivors who are not entitled to reimbursements for traveling by ambulance from external sources, such as ticket offices The patients, the National Insurance Institute, insurance companies and more, and the financial burden was placed on their shoulders. in MDA, Obliged according to the Magen David Adom regulations to charge each patient a fee for an ambulance ride, Be diligent and find a creative solution to the problem, which will make it possible to ease the burden of the Holocaust survivors. Fund participation Conditional on the exhaustion of the rights of the Holocaust survivor vis-à-vis the external factors and according to criteria are defined.
CEO of MDA, Eli Bin: "The MDA organization is obliged by law to collect a toll for traveling by ambulance from every person who is evacuated, but in some cases there is an obligation to consider and find a solution for the needs of the individual in Israeli society, and first and foremost the Holocaust survivors. The Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Israel after the end of the war were full partners in the establishment and development of the country and therefore, we set ourselves the goal of helping them and worked vigorously to establish the special fund that could cover for them the costs of evacuation by ambulance and the receipt of professional medical services from MDA teams. We will continue to do everything possible In order to help the tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors living in Israel today."
Special number for handling payments of Holocaust survivors 03-6300234
gross lie This was true until a few months ago. Today there are new guidelines that do not entitle a Holocaust survivor (with a certificate, of course) to reimbursement of expenses. https://twitter.com/tamir/status/1209944584203227136