During the weekend, Magen David Adom teams provided medical treatment to 14 casualties, including: 3 wounded by shrapnel, of which 2 men (Thai foreign nationals) about 35 years old who were moderately and lightly injured in the Galilee Panhandle and a 22-year-old man in a minor condition in the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council. During Red Alert sirens in Ashdod, a 10-year-old girl went into cardiac arrest and after the efforts of resuscitation operations by MDA teams, the girl’s heart returned to beating and she is hospitalized in a serious condition while being sedated and ventilated. 4 were slightly injured on their way to a protected area in Ashdod and Ashkelon and 6 anxiety victims.
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 (Sat. 21.10) MDA forces throughout the country are on high alert. About 1,400 MDA ambulances, including bulletproof ones, are manned by MDA volunteers and employees who save lives sometimes under fire. Since the beginning of the war (Sat. 7.10), the MDA’s blood services have collected more than 39,000 units of blood from citizens who volunteered. The units and blood components were supplied to all hospitals in Israel for the treatment of the casualties.
Since the beginning of the war, MDA helicopters have carried out dozens of evacuation sorties and evacuated to the Sheba, Beilinson, Ichilov, Shamir Assaf Harofeh, Shaare Zedek and Hadassah Ein Kerem hospitals, dozens of wounded civilians and soldiers from the area and the hospitals in the south. After initial treatment in the Barzilai and Soroka hospitals in the south, dozens of ambulances, MICUs and dedicated evacuation vehicles of Magen David Adom, transported injured people of all levels of injury to hospitals throughout the country.