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An MDA Lottery Booth Defibrillator Saves the Life of a 40-Year-Old Man in the Carmel Market
Last week, a man collapsed in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv. MDA’s 101 emergency call center was immediately contacted and began the process of saving his life with the help of an emergency defibrillator stored on the side of a Mifal HaPais lottery booth. After emergency call center EMT, Yuval Kadishi, realized that the…
Changes to the MDA Overseas Volunteer Program
Unfortunately the May program has officially been cancelled. All participants have been contacted and MDA Israel will be processing a full refund of any fees paid (minus the $50 application fee). With regards to the June & July sessions, we are recommending that participants not book their flights for now and we will keep you…
MDA Red Sunday/Pesach Telethon
Volunteers from local schools and youth groups and long standing supporters generously gave their time on Sunday April 2, 2017 to man the phones for MDA’s Red Sunday Telethon to raise money to fund a 4 x 4 life Support Ambulance for MDA Israel. The request for these ambulances came recently from Israel because they…
MDA’s Human Milk Bank saves preemies.
Israel’s Channel 11 aired “White Gold,” featuring MDA’s Sussman Family Foundation Human Milk Bank. In this three-minute excerpt, meet one mother who says, “ten minutes of my time [a day] provides quite a few meals for needy babies.” Einat Zeifa provides 160 liters of milk a month, picked up and processed by Magen David Adom. Dr. Sharron…
MDA brings ultrasound to ambulances and helicopters.
Arutz Sheva/Israel National News — Paramedics with Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency medical service, will soon not only be listening to the hearts of cardiac patients, but literally seeing them too. Beginning this summer, MDA will be unveiling ultrasound technology aboard its advanced life support Medevac helicopters and its Mobile Intensive Care Unit ambulances (MICUs)….