With the launch of Operation “Rising Lion” and the declaration of a special state of emergency on the home front early Friday morning (June 13), Magen David Adom raised its alert level to the maximum
All MDA ambulances, mobile intensive care units, emergency medicycles, and rapid response vehicles were fully staffed, and the organization’s 35,000 staff and volunteers were mobilized to provide fast and effective medical care wherever needed.
Magen David Adom teams were dispatched to multiple scenes, arriving with significant forces including ambulances, mobile intensive care units, medicycle first responders. They treated a total of 204 people: 3 fatalities, 2 seriously injured, 7 moderately injured, 159 lightly injured, and 33 experiencing anxiety.
Key locations where victims were treated and evacuated to hospitals:
From the rocket strike site in the Tel Aviv area, 13 patients were evacuated: 2 in moderate condition and 11 in mild condition.
From the rocket site in the Ramat Gan area, 30 casualties were evacuated: A 74-year-old woman was evacuated in critical condition and pronounced dead at the hospital, a 65-year-old man in serious condition, 1 in moderate condition, and 27 in mild condition.
From the rocket strike site in the Rishon LeZion area, 29 casualties were evacuated: A 60-year-old woman was rescued with no signs of life and pronounced dead at the scene, a 73-year-old man was evacuated in critical condition and later died at the hospital, 2 in moderate condition, and 25 in mild condition.
Additionally, MDA teams treated at the other sites 5 casualties from debris and shrapnel (1 moderate, 4 mild), and 94 people injured on route to shelters including serious, 1 moderate, and 92 mild, as well as 33 patients suffering from anxiety.
Magen David Adom teams are operating at the request of the Ministry of Health to evacuate nursing patients, ventilated patients, premature babies, and others from their current locations to protected facilities using MDA's special intensive care buses, mobile intensive care units, and ambulances.
MDA’s EMTs and paramedics remain on high alert, ready to provide immediate medical care as needed.
Magen David Adom warns of a severe blood shortage and calls on the public - especially those with blood type O, to check the national blood donation site (http://www.mdais.org/dam) for current blood drive locations operating under Home Front Command guidelines and to come donate blood. It is recommended to book an appointment on the MDA website and complete the donor questionnaire sent to your mobile device before arriving.
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