Hello, my name is Vlada. I’m a refugee from Ukraine.
I came to Israel last year. Thats the only place where I have friends abroad so I choose to go to Israel.
After two months of being here, I started feel week, my hands and lags slowly stopped working and my coordination was strongly impaired, that I couldn’t even realize it. So a friend of mine helped me to make an insurance. I went to my ”family doctor” and she almost immediately sent me to the hospital. In hospital traumatologist and neurologist checked me and told me that I need to be hospitalized.
I’ve been in hospital for 9 days. After 6th day my insurance company called and said that they break the contract, and refused to work with me any longer. That was the day when my doctors found out that I have a Multiple Sclerosis with extensive areas of inflammation in the brain and spinal cord.
On the hospital discharge day, a person from the hospital financial department bring me the letter with the price of my hospitalization which is 69 000 shekels. ($17,953)
My family and friends took a bank loans to help me. Now it still $8700 that I need to pay for that hospitalization.And during this year I still didn’t start the treatment, because no Israely insurance company wants to work with refugees who have such an expensive disease. Volunteers found a treatment for me, but now I have to take new tests and MRI to start the treatment, which I don’t have money for.
Now I also have a problem with the place to live,as long as my friend,who I lived with all this year, decided to leave this country for a better career. For all this year I’ve tried really hard to at least close the loans, so I am in trap,and extremely tired.
Hoping for your understanding, and thank you for the attention and time reading it.
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