(Cyprus Mail) Israel will award Cyprus Health Minister Giorgos Pamboridis a certificate of appreciation after he helped save the life of an Israeli. On Jan. 13, Hadassah Medical Center requested the Israel Foreign Ministry's assistance in saving the life of a patient who needed a drug that was not available in Israel. As the country's embassies across Europe were contacted in a bid to locate the drug, Israeli Ambassador to Cyprus Yael Ravia-Zadok immediately contacted Pamboridis, who responded despite it being Friday night. He got back to the ambassador in under an hour, saying: "We have the medication. Nicosia General Hospital is waiting for you to come and pick it up." When the ambassador asked how to transfer payment, the minister replied: "Payment? What payment?" and refused to accept any compensation. The medicine was flown to Israel in time to save the patient's life. The Israeli ambassador said, "We will always remember the Cypriots' commitment to human lives experienced first-hand by Jewish Holocaust survivors who were on their way to Israel and deported by the British to Cyprus; 53,000 survivors were concentrated in detention camps on the island in 1946-1949. Even then, we saw humane gestures of many Cypriots who assisted people in the camps."
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