Few emergencies demand more precision than resuscitating a newborn, a skill 20 MAGEN DAVID ADOM paramedics recently honed through specialized training with Shamir Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) team.
The call was for a young man having a heart attack in an apartment near Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. Dr. Michael Block, an American anesthesiologist, was riding with a MAGEN DAVID ADOM ambulance crew alongside his son, Evan, an EMT. The team started an IV, called ahead to Ichilov, and rushed the patient to the hospital.
On October 12, MAGEN DAVID ADOM’s 101 National Emergency Dispatch Center received a report of multiple casualties following the explosion of unexploded ordnance at Ramim Ridge. Large numbers of MDA ambulances, Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICUs), medicycle first responders, and MDA helicopters were immediately dispatched to the scene, alongside IDF helicopters that were also mobilized.
MAGEN DAVID ADOM mourned its first responders who were murdered during the October 7 massacre earlier this week to mark three years since Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel and murdered over 1,200 Israelis.
As more families depend on human milk banks to meet the vital health and nutritional needs of babies, these facilities should implement emergency response plans, similar to those in blood and tissue banks and other critical medical services.
Seventeen-year-old Michal Shamis of Petah Tikva remembers the moment everything changed. Thin, pale, and hooked up to devices and transfusions, she caught her reflection in the mirror and barely recognized herself. Looking herself in the eye, she made a promise: she was going to live her life, and no disease would decide who she was.
The Marcus National Blood Services Center is one of the most important buildings in Israel for saving lives. It is the beating heart of Israel’s national blood supply where hundreds of thousands of units of blood are processed and safely stored, ready to be rapidly deployed across the nation to meet urgent needs.
When Iranian missiles began landing on Israeli cities this year – Beit Shemesh, Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv – the man moving between the impact sites was the same one who joined MAGEN DAVID ADOM as a 15-year-old youth volunteer.
What began as a joyful summer celebration turned into a moment of terror for the family and friends of 13-year-old Tair Zafrani from Modi’in.
When an improvised explosive device severely injured 20-year-old Kobi, he found himself in a fight for survival that could not be won without urgent intervention and, above all else, a lifesaving…
