With forecasters promising snow in Yerushalayim later this week, Yad Sarah, which plays a major role in emergency situations, is among the volunteer and paid organizations preparing for the storm.

Yad Sarah officials’ explain their fleet of vans capable of accommodating wheelchair bound persons are being equipped with chains and the organization is going to activate its emergency phone dispatchers, who will take calls from the infirmed and elderly in need of assistance.

Persons responsible for the organization’s emergency operations explain that during a storm, priority is given to those requiring immediate assistance. This includes dialysis, chemotherapy and other patients. Transports are also provided for women in labor and other non-life-threatening situations not requiring an ambulance.

Yad Sarah officials’ stress the organization operates year-round to assist the elderly and infirmed, as well as providing loaner medical equipment to all Israelis in need. The organization’s ‘moked’ operator functions around-the-clock and there will be an increase in the number of phone operators is the storm arrives as predicted. Anyone requiring immediate assistance may phone *6444.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)