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Obviously wanting to get back to work as the medical manager of the field hospital set up by the Israel Defence Forces in the Philippines, Lt.-Col. Dr. Ofer Merin spoke hurriedly about the three days his team has been seeing patients in the typhoon-ravaged nation.
He told of at least 12 babies the hospital had delivered – most of them premature – and the stabbing victim who might have died if not for the IDF hospital in Bogo City on Cebu Island, one of the areas hardest hit by last week’s Typhoon Haiyan.
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