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One night 24 years ago when he was one year old, Moshe Biton’s parents came into his room to find him unable to breathe and his skin turned completely blue. They rushed him to the MDA station near their home in Hatzor HaGlilit in northern Israel. Ronen Kadosh, then a young EMT at MDA, started…
MDA continues the battle against COVID-19
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak on February 24, 2020, MDA teams have tested over 2.5 million people from all over the country including 4,425 people who have returned to Israel from abroad who were tested at an MDA mobile test stand set up at Ben Gurion Airport. MDA Paramedics have taken 3,000 serological…
Magen David Adom turns telephone booths & lottery kiosks into lifesavers
Magen David Adom has entered joint ventures with Bezeq and Mifal HaPayis to install defibrillators around the country to help counter the most common cause of death in Israel and around the world – cardiac arrest. Israel’s main telephone company, Bezeq Israel Telecom, has announced that it will work with Magen David Adom in converting…
One call fits all: MDA, police, fire services now integrated on AI software.
The Jerusalem Post — The dispatch systems of Israel’s three rescue services are now interconnected so any of the three agencies — the Israel Police, the Fire and Rescue Service, and Magen David Adom — can now automatically dispatch one another in emergencies without having to manually contact them, as was previously necessary. The interconnect, which…