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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)….
New life emerges amid echoes of explosions.
One Israeli refused to adhere to the red alert sirens as hundreds of rockets were being launched into his hometown of Ashkelon. Baby Boy Greenberg was ready to come into this world, and nothing was going to stop him. On Sunday, August 7, Maayan Greenberg, 32, went into labor. Surrounded by explosions and sirens, she…
Three-year old girl survives 50-foot fall.
While hiking with her father and brother, a 3-year-old girl fell into a 50-foot well in northern Israel. Her father subsequently fell after the ladder installed in the well broke when he attempted to climb down to rescue his daughter. The man told his 5-year-old son to go for help. The boy found other hikers…
Saved by MDA, he becomes EMT to save others.
One year ago, 21-year-old Mohammed Azbarga was swept up by a strong current at a beach in Eilat and began to drown. Passersby called MDA’s 101 hotline, while others swam out to rescue him. MDA paramedics Aviran Ashkenazi, Alon Yosef, and Ariel Auslander, and MDA EMT Maayan Oren arrived on the scene and immediately began…
A year since Israel’s first COVID patient: Looking back
No one could have envisioned the year of the pandemic. By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN Magen David Adom paramedic Rami Maushar was scared but excited the night of February 21. He stood on the cold tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport to greet the 11 Israelis who were returning to the country after being quarantined on the Diamond Princess “coronavirus” ship for…
Performing CPR on newborn, paramedic vows to attend brit.
There’s a line from a British poem that’s now famous, “Good things come to those who wait.” Well, the young lad now known as Avishai Cohen would have none of that. This past March, he was coming into this world regardless of the fact that he was only six months into his gestation. Ready or…