18.07.2011                      16.Tammus, 5771

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Kaplan doctor saves Israeli over skies of Tashkent

Rehovot's Dr. Yael Dinai was on a flight from Israel to China via Uzbekistan when a 53-year-old man felt unwell and had a heart attack.

The head of the emergency room at Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot was on a flight from Israel to China via Uzbekistan when a 53-year-old man felt unwell and had a heart attack. The experienced urgent-care physician, Dr. Yael Dinai, resuscitated the man and ordered the pilot of flight HY505 of Uzbekistan Airways to land and take Gedera resident Zevulun Shalom to the nearest hospital in Tashkent.
Dinai, a physician for 37 years, sat a few seats from the man and, 20 minutes after the stopover in Tashkent, was awakened from sleep by Ellie Limor, an emergency-room staffer from Kaplan, and saw he was covered with a cold sweat. He then lost consciousness….