Magen David Atom Provides Nationwide EMS Response in Israel

Israel’s Magen David Adom provides nationwide EMS response Approximately 500 volunteers respond using dedicated motorcycles outfitted with first aid supplies, AEDs and other lifesaving equipment. Photos courtesy Magen David Atom Israel’s EMS and blood services are based on a national organization, Magen David Adom (MDA), which is also known as Israeli Red Cross Society. MDA serves the entire population of Israel both during peacetimes as well as during conflicts and wars. MDA is a non-governmental, non-profit organization, established before the state of Israel, and works under direction of the 1950 MDA Law as passed by the Israeli Parliament. The organization is a voluntary one in its core, whereby the volunteers not only take part in the operative activities, but they’re also an inseparable part of its management—the National Council and the Management Council. Nearly all of MDA’s management started their path in MDA as volunteers, and the same is true for most of the employees who staff the ambulances and Mobile ICUs (MICUs). MDA operates several arms to provide EMS response on a national level, including a dispatch center, Life Guardians, first responders, BLS ambulances, intensive care ambulances and helicopter EMS. There are currently 162 ambulance stations across Israel, where some 22,000 volunteers (approximately half are youth volunteers) and 2,180 paid employees are active...
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