Israelis aid COVID-stricken Italian region, with billionaire Abramovich paying – For first time, Israel’s disaster medicine center deploys in an advanced Western state, after appeal from Piedmont, where hospital was overwhelmed | Timesofisrael

A team of Israeli medics, funded by Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich, is helping a hospital in a northern Italy to cope with a deluge of coronavirus cases.
“There are around 300 patients in the hospital and 165 of them are coronavirus cases, which is on a completely different scale from what I see in Israel,” said Elhanan Bar-On, director of the Israel Center for Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response, which is running the delegation.