In Israel, Magen David Adom made 1.9 million callouts in a year — Jerusalem Post
Israel's emergency medical service Magen David Adom made 1,911,412 callouts across the country during the year 5786 on the Jewish calendar. On average, a service crew was dispatched every 16.5 seconds, the Jerusalem Post reports.
During this period, the 101 dispatch center received 2,020,218 calls — approximately one every 15.9 seconds. The average call response time was two seconds or less. The service used intensive care ambulances, ambulances, emergency response motorcycles and rapid response vehicles.
Personnel and training
Magen David Adom has about 39,200 volunteers, employees, national and civil service participants, including approximately 16,500 teenage volunteers. Another 18,000 volunteers participate in the Ne'emanei Chaim (Guardians of Life) program. The organization's volunteers worked more than 6.3 million hours, and their average age was 26.8 years.
Over the year, approximately 500,000 people completed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid courses: more than 17,000 training courses were held in total. The service's medical division also certified 401 new paramedics, including 117 national service participants.
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Patient care and donations
Paramedics and emergency medical specialists provided medical care to 67,624 people injured in road accidents. A total of 18,727 pregnant women were taken to hospitals; 1,399 of them gave birth at home or on the way to a medical facility with the assistance of Magen David Adom crews.
The organization's blood service collected 281,917 units of blood during thousands of donation drives at blood donation points, schools, workplaces and Israel Defense Forces bases. The National Donor Breast Milk Bank delivered about 5,700 liters of milk to premature babies, newborns in hospitals and sick infants at home.
According to the organization, its mobile ECMO unit, which operates jointly with Shamir Medical Center in Tzrifin, assisted nine patients. Five of them were connected to a heart-lung machine during resuscitation efforts in field conditions.
