First aid

IDF debuts paramedic course tailored to active combat service

“As staff, we repeatedly posed the reflective question, ‘Why am I here?’ Ultimately, they made the choice to leave, and they understand that their goal is to become life-saving medics.”

|BySHOSHANA BAKER
Graduates of the IDF Paramedic Course 49.
President Isaac Herzog presents prize to MDA servicewomen Mera Bokae and Tehila Kadosh.

Herzog honors two MDA servicewomen for lifesaving service during crisis

Herzog presented the Excellence Award to MDA servicewomen Mera Bokae and Tehila Kadosh for working beyond their volunteer hours to assist in times of crisis.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
TABLETS OF opioid-based Hydrocodone: The Israeli medical community must stand up against over-prescribing of opioids, as many healthcare workers around the globe have done, say the writers.

How to save a fentanyl victim: Key facts about naloxone

Naloxone is sold under brand names such as Narcan and RiVive. It can be bought online or at major pharmacies for between $30 and $45 a kit.

|ByREUTERS
Wolt drivers learn first aid from MDA

Meals and CPR on wheels: MDA trains Wolt drivers in life-saving first aid

Magen David Adom is training 1,000 Wolt delivery drivers in life-saving first aid, leveraging their widespread presence to improve emergency response nationwide.

|ByEVE YOUNG

New United Hatzalah Midwives Unit delivers emergency birth

“It was a very moving experience to be able to be there for this woman in the critical moments," said United Hatzalah Midwives Unit volunteer Ruthie Printz.

JANUARY 28, 2019ByBEN BRESKY
Allison Rosenbaum and Ruthie Printz of the United Hatzalah Midwives Unit with a newborn baby in Beit Shemesh, January 27, 2019

Fire in Beit Shemesh, rescue teams responding

So far no casualties have been reported in the incident.

NOVEMBER 2, 2018ByMAARIV ONLINE
Fire burns through store in Beit Shemesh

Off-duty medic waiting in post office line saves choking baby

United Hatzalah's national dispatch center received an emergency call just after 1 p.m. about the toddler in trouble, but it was Yossi Dvir who first arrived on the scene.

NOVEMBER 8, 2017ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Mordechai Mammon and Avraham Shitrit meet again a week after the incident

Only 10% of Israelis know how to properly administer CPR

The study was aimed at discovering how well the general populace of Israel could respond to a medical emergency that they came across before emergency responders could arrive.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
United Hatzalah paramedics practice CPR on a volunteer.