After a yearlong vetting process, the World Health Organization has given its first highest Type 3 ranking to the Israeli army’s emergency medical response team. The ranking recognizes the unit as a world leader in emergency medicine and assures it continued early access to disaster scenes.
The WHO created standards in 2013 to classify foreign medical teams that respond to disasters on a scale of one to three. Israel was ranked “three-plus,” beyond even the basic requirements. No others have begun the process.
Israeli disaster relief teams have been among the first and largest to arrive at the scenes of natural disasters, including an earthquake in Turkey in 1999, an earthquake in Haiti in 2010 a typhoon in the Philippines in 2013 and an earthquake in Nepal in 2015.
It seems that the UN can put its anti-Semitism aside as long as it can get some benefit from Israel.
