(Times of Israel) Nathan Jeffay - An Israeli aid delegation landed Tuesday in Uruguay, a country with the world's second-highest rate of new Covid cases. A four-person team from Sheba Medical Center will focus on helping hospitals cope with the sudden skyrocketing of cases. The delegation includes Sheba's logistics coordinator Shai Swissa, who was responsible for identifying spare areas at the hospital, including parking lots, and converting them into coronavirus wards. Swissa, the son of Uruguayan parents who moved to Israel, speaks fluent Spanish. Sheba's Israel Center for Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response has also sent equipment, including ECG machines and ventilators. "At Sheba we've closed all our coronavirus wards and we can share all our knowledge, allowing them to learn from our experiences, including from our mistakes," said Moriya Suliman, a nurse from the Sheba team.
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