Meals on Wheels within the Hospital

     The food cart “clank-clanks” around the different departments of the Tzfat hospital offering cooked prepared meals to the “escort” next to a hospitalized person or a one visiting in an out-patient clinic. What a mouth-watering experience it can be!

      All too often when someone is hospitalized even with an “escort” staying by their side or when someone goes for an appointment as an out-patient in a clinic, food is not always available that is Kosher leMehadrin, or it can get pricey. Especially when the time in the hospital can take much longer than anticipated.

      In September of 2006, the Yad Eliezer  branch in Tzfat was finally able to accomplish their dream of providing a warm nourishing meal for people in the hospital sitting next to a patient or in an out-patient clinic. These are the same type of meals given out to many citizens during the War the summer of 2006.

     The Tzfat hospital is THE hospital of the North covering an area spanning from Karmiel to Kiryat Shemona – including kibbutzim and Arab, Druze and Circassian villages. A patient’s sojourn in the hospital may have come by a long journey off and on buses, and so too the one visiting. Meals served on the wards are for the most part only for the patient (although the exception to this is pediatrics and a nursing baby – the mother may be offered hospital fare).

     The Yad Eliezer “meals on wheels” are free and very much appreciated. They are given out by female volunteers, most of who are from the Meor Chaim neighborhood of Tzfat.

     Anyone interested in knowing more information or how to help, can call Dalya Dayan at 04-697-3135.