In the 24 hours until 18:45 today *Magen David Adom teams have treated 5 casualties, including: a 60 year old male in moderate to serious condition with shrapnel injuries that occurred as he exited his vehicle to seek shelter in the Netivot region, and 4 casualties in mild condition who were injured while running to seek shelter in Ashkelon, Bat Yam and Sderot.
Since the beginning of the war, MDA forces have treated thousands of casualties, dead, seriously, moderately and lightly injured, including MDA personnel who were involved in saving lives. Continuing today, (Sunday 22.10), MDA forces are on high alert throughout the country. About 1,400 MDA ambulances, including bulletproof ambulances, are manned by MDA volunteers and employees who save lives sometimes under fire. MDA’s Blood Services held blood drives today in Karmiel, Caesarea, Shimsheet, Beer Yaakov, Ramat Hasharon, Jerusalem, Ariel and Kiryat Yam.
Since the outbreak of war (Saturday 7.10), MDA Blood Services have collected over 45,000 blood units from volunteer donors. The blood units and components were delivered to hospitals across Israel for treatment of the casualties. Since the beginning of the war, MDA helicopters have carried out dozens of medevac missions and evacuated dozens of wounded civilians and soldiers from the area and the hospitals in the south to the Sheba hospitals in Tel Hashomer, Beilinson, Ichilov, Shamir-Assaf Harofeh, Shaare Zedek and Hadassah Ein Kerem. After initial treatment in the Barzilai and Soroka hospitals in the south, dozens of ambulances, intensive care vehicles and dedicated evacuation vehicles of Magen David Adom, transported injured people of all degrees of injury to hospitals throughout the country.
*MDA appeals to the public and reminds them to adhere to the life-saving instructions of the security forces, and for any medical need to dial 101 to the MDA dispatch center, and to come and donate blood in the locations advertised on the MDA website – www.mdais.org/blood-donation