MDA Forces are on High Alert
With the Opening of the Eurovision Song Contest:
The Eurovision Song Contest will be held over the coming week, and include a number of large events, with tens of thousands of participants, including the two semi-finals on Tuesday and Thursday. The festive week will reach its peak this coming Saturday, with the final competition in Tel Aviv.
All the events of the Eurovision Song Contest are medically secured by MDA teams. Tel Aviv is being reinforced with additional EMTs, Paramedics and first responders riding on MDA medicycles and electric bicycles. At the events at the Exhibition Halls and the Eurovision Song Contest site in Charles Clore Park, MDA EMTs and paramedics will standby in intensive care units, ambulances, medicycles, electric bicycles and MERVs, and will reinforce the teams at the Eurovision final. In addition, two clinics will be operated at the Exposition hall, which are manned by MDA paramedics as well as doctors and nurses from Ichilov Hospital. MDA works in full cooperation with all emergency forces, including the Israel Police, Israel Fire Rescue, and with the broadcasting corporation Kan 11, which organizes the Eurovision Song Contest in Israel.
In order to overcome the traffic congestion expected during the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv, the number of MDA EMTs and paramedics has been increased by medicycles, electric bicycles and ambulances.
In addition to the increased level of preparedness in the Tel Aviv area, MDA forces throughout the country will continue to provide rapid, efficient and professional medical response to the routine calls received every day.
MDA Director-General Eli Bin said, "We have been preparing for a long time for the events of the Eurovision Song Contest that will be held this week, with tens of thousands of participants, including many tourists from all over the world, and we intend to do everything in our power to allow the many events and performances to be held in the safest manner. "
