Healthcare for the Body and Soul
Chabad at forefront of vaccine distribution effort in Ukraine
July 11, 2021
When the Ukrainian ministry of health was devising the logistics of a massive vaccine distribution for the Dnepropetrovsk region, Healthcare Minister
Viktor Liashko and Governor of the Region
Valentin Reznichenko turned to the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Ukraine.
Would the city’s Jewish Medical Center (JMC), they asked Federation’s leaders, Rabbi
Meir Stambler and
Raphael Rutman, help coordinate the effort through its medical clinic?
“The state recognized that in addition to being a religious institution, we had the resources to mobilize and provide humanitarian support, securing vaccinations for all citizens in the Dnepropetrovsk Region,” said the region’s Chief Rabbi