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Magen David Adom Before Mount Meron Tragedy: ‘Every Year We Came Back With a Sigh of Relief No Disaster Happened’
Volunteers at Israel’s national ambulance and disaster-relief organization, Magen David Adom — who were the first to come to the rescue at the mass-casualty incident, which took lives of 45 people on the eve of Lag B’Omer at Mount Meron in the Galilee — had feared that a disaster happening at the site was a…
MDA IS WORKING ON VACCINE FOR CORONAVIRUS
As part of the project, MDA will collect plasma units from those recovered from Corona in order to treat the severely ill. This is based on the assumption that those who have recovered from the disease have developed special anti-virus proteins (antibodies) in their plasma. These units provide patients with a “passive vaccine” that may…
When disasters strike in Israel MDA is at the front line
As we approach the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we look back on another COVID ravaged year, both here in Australia and also in Israel.
Magen David Adom has been and remains at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19. MDA has conducted more than five million tests, given more than a million vaccinations, including to employees and residents of all the nursing and retirement homes all over Israel.
Vaccinations
Magen David Adom reported last week (7th January) that it has completed the first round of vaccinations in all of the country’s nursing home and elderly-care facilities, making Israel the first country in the world to provide phase 1 vaccinations to all its nursing home patients. This week, the second round of vaccinations will begin,…
MDA conducts over 1m. coronavirus tests since pandemic begins
Magen David Adom (MDA) announced on Thursday they have conducted 1,053,864 tests since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak at the end of February. The tests, performed over the past months, took place in several locations, from private homes, clinics, hospitals, nursing homes as part of the “Protecting Fathers and Mothers” project, MDA drive-thru testing stations…