Beit Safafa resident calls Natali medical services company to order doctor’s visit for feverish husband only to be told ‘No doctor will go to an Arab area’
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Are residents of Arab neighborhood expected to go without medical care due to their place of residence? Natali Seculife, a medical and emergency services company refused to send a physician for a house-call in Beit Safafa, a resident of Jerusalem’s Arab neighborhood said.
A call center representative told the resident that a company doctor will not visit an “Arab area.”
The incident occurred a week ago, when Sonia Alias, a resident of Beit Safafa, called the service and asked for a house-call for her feverish husband.
The Natali call-center’s representative took Alias’ credit card information and told her a doctor will arrive shortly.
After 30 minutes Alias was called by an Arabic speaking representative and asked for an exact address.
According to her, after receiving the address he said: “I’ll tell you the truth. The doctor here will not agree to go to an Arab area.”
She said the representative suggested she drive her husband to receive the needed care.
“I explained that this isn’t a dangerous neighborhood, I told him that I’ll meet them and take them to my home.
“He suggested I take my husband to a nearby doctor but I explained that he’s feverish, very weak and can’t stand on his feet. He said that they’ll check and get back to me.”
The representative called Alias after an hour and then claimed the doctor has a lot of patients and the wait for the house-call will be longer than three hours.
The couple did not give up. “I told the representative that I’m willing to wait,” Alias said. “I said I really want him to come, but the call ended and I didn’t hear back from them until the following morning.”
Waiting, she was distressed: “I was afraid my husband had swine flu and I was helpless. It’s a man’s life. Just because we live in an Arab neighborhood he doesn’t deserve care? He deserves to die? I called for a doctor, not a car-towing service. This is contempt for human life. It was hurtful, insulting and jarring.”
The next day Alias received a call from a representative. According to her, “she said that she’s very sorry a doctor wasn’t sent and asked if I’m still interested in a house-call.
“It drove me mad; I scolded her and gave up the service.”
Natali clarified it was a one-time incident: “An inquiry revealed that the representative who took care of Mrs. Alias’ call was operating on his own initiative and not according to the company’s guidelines.
“We’ll study the incident and draw the necessary conclusions.”
It was further stated: “The company provides medical service to hundreds of thousands of clients equally, regardless of religion, race or gender, and is one of the only companies which provides this service to the Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem.”
#1 by Tony on February 22, 2013 - 7:56 pm
They should of told them that they were members of the FSA.
#2 by 1bigcree Shadowhawk on February 22, 2013 - 11:44 pm
Welcome to life in racist, Marxist ,APARTHEID, ‘israel’. Reading this story makes my blood boil. It would have the same effect on anyone with a body temp. Why on earth are we as a humanity not stomping the living daylights out of this illegitimate ‘Country?’ Why are so many people turning a blind eye and deaf ear to the suffering of the people who have been placed under the most brutal and inhumane occupation in history? When are we all going to demand an end to it? South Africa’s Apartheid regime was dismantled even though there is still a Zionist presence there; it still took a hit due to worldwide condemnation and outcry. What this criminal base of operations in Illegally besieged Palestine has been getting away with for the past 65 years is unconscionable as well as unprecedented in its cruelty, barbarity and sheer depth of vileness. Baruch Goldstein the murdering ‘Rabbi’ who killed 29 innocent Palestinians in prayer at the Cave of the Patriarch on Feb 25, 1994. He was an American born dual citizen ‘israeli’ who became a practicing Medical Doctor after moving to ‘israei’ and joining the IOF. This murdering thug massacred Arab people with the full intent to kill as many as possible. He was another one of the followers of the uber racist, Zionists Meir Kahane. Goldstein was quoted as saying ‘I will not treat Non Jews’. This is the filth occupying Palestine today. It is this usurping parasitic entity that receives billions of U.S. tax dollars, Military aid and support to carry out these atrocious acts of bloodlust and the fools who blindly sit in their church pews every Sunday to listen to another ‘Sermon’ my Zionist $ellouts like Haggee, Robertson, Osteen et al are equally culpable! Same for the traitorous Politicians in the District of Corruption. Traitors you all are and NOT patriots! Damn you for your complicity in Crimes Against earthly humanity!
#3 by 1bigcree Shadowhawk on February 22, 2013 - 11:54 pm
In addition to my previous post on this sickening condition (pun unintended) the slaughter of 29 Palestinians in prayer by the murdering low life Baruch Goldstein; read this post. He did this on Purim. I hope the ‘Zionist Christians’ who come across this let it sink in. You are enabling this and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
ww.independent.co.uk/news/world/jewish-killer-attacked-mosque-last-year-evidence-is-mounting-that-baruch-goldstein-was-known-to-be-dangerous-well-before-the-massacre-writes-sarah-helm-1426229.html