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Call an Ambulance at 101, Not Hatzoloh

by Betzalel Kahn

Hatzoloh Yisroel is making ongoing efforts to prevent citizens whose children need medical attention from rushing with the child to the home of the neighborhood medic rather than summoning an ambulance.

In Beit Shemesh recently, a medic who works for Magen David Adom and Hatzoloh Yisroel heard loud knocking on the door of his home one evening. Opening the door he saw a neighbor, looking frantic and pale, holding a boy in his arms. "My son stopped breathing. Save him!" he cried out.

The medic examined the boy and was surprised to find his breathing was fine and he was fully conscious. "The child was alarmed by his father's hysteria, but he looked fine from a medical standpoint," recalled the medic.

The father, who apparently failed to notice his son had regained consciousness after fainting previously, went into a state of panic and created a scene.

This incident had a happy ending, but based on other incidents that ended in tragedy, Hatzoloh Yisroel notes that in the event of an emergency an ambulance should be summoned immediately by contacting Magen David Adom at 101. "The long minutes lost by running with the patient to the medic's home, particularly if he's not home at the time, can cost a person's life," says Hatzoloh Yisroel Spokesman Yerachmiel Tucker.

 

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