Magen David Adom Summarizes the Year 2020 in Numbers
In the past year, Magen David Adom has been involved in saving lives, in fighting the spread of the Coronavirus, and in COVID-19 sampling and vaccinating. Tens of thousands of employees and volunteers of the organization continue to engage in routine and emergency operations throughout the country even during the Corona crisis.
MDA celebrated 90 years and on the eve of the New Year, the organization summarizes the past year and presents the main activities in numbers. 2,000 ambulances and MICUs stationed around Israel, 609,471 patients were treated by MDA teams. 3,456,450 corona samples for testing were taken by MDA teams. MDA has vaccinated 60,000 people. A 101 call was received on average every 7.2 seconds with the average answer time standing at 4 seconds.
MDA Director General Eli Bin: "Magen David Adom volunteers and employees are proud to be part of the National Rescue Organization, which has been at the forefront of the Corona pandemic throughout the past year and will continue to help eradicate the epidemic with the help of the vaccination operation. During 2020, MDA continued to advance technologically and developed dedicated life-saving applications, including a mobile application to cut off the chain of infection. In the vaccination operation that was at its peak. In 2021, too, we will continue to do everything we can for the citizens of the country and for the health of us all, in the days of the Corona and beyond."
2020 in Numbers
MDA celebrated 90 years | MDA Operates 180 stations throughout Israel | 11 of them were opened at 2020 | The organization deploys more than 2,000 lifesaving vehicles of which 76 4x4 | 18 Dune Tractors (MULES) | 9 Jeepbulance and 48 Armored MICUs and ambulances | 2 ICU buses | 600 First Responders Medicycles | 33 intercity Medicycles | 150 electric bicycles | 40 MERVs | 1 jet ski and 1 sea bulance at the Sea of Galilee | 3 corona vaccine and testing caravans | 2 mobile MDA stations | 1,046,358 MDA emergency vehicles were launched times - every 30 seconds an MDA emergency vehicles is launched | 609,471 patients and injured were treated by MDA teams | 35,382 patients were treated and evacuated from motor vehicle accidents | 3,456,450 Corona samples were taken by MDA teams | 1,616,349 of which at Drive and Test facilities | 58,948 school students were sampled to date | MDA has vaccinated 100,000 people | During the bathing season | MDA EMTs and Paramedics provided medical treatment to 254 adults and children who drowned | MDA teams perform an Average of 19 resuscitations per day | A total of 750,454 patients and casualties were transferred to hospitals | 14,429 pregnant women were evacuated to hospital | 902 babies were delivered with the help of MDA teams at home or on the way to hospital | MDA activates 30,000 employees | national service volunteers | among them 10,000 Youth volunteers | 1,500 new employees were hired | MDA activates 17,700 Life Guardians volunteers | 27,000 Corona ambassadors volunteers | Volunteers invest over 2.6 million hours of service per year | The oldest volunteer is 89 years old & the youngest is 15 | 250,000 People underwent CPR and first aid courses | 507 MDA Youth volunteers were trained to manage an MCI - Multi Casualty Incident | 660 youth volunteers were trained as instructors | 269,958 Blood Units were donated to MDA Blood Service’s phlebotomists | 31.5% of donors are women | 19% are first time donors | 27% were donated at IDF bases | The MDA Blood Bank Services have 42 Blood Mobiles | All blood donations are examined to determine blood type and identify infectious diseases in blood service labs and provided to all hospitals and the IDF. 14,430 plasma units were donated by Corona virus recovered | 3,784 units have been given to 1,892 Coronavirus patients in moderate and severe condition (2 units each).
122 wishes were fulfilled thanks to the MDA Wish Ambulance | The helicopters’ teams treated and evacuated 278 patients and injured to hospitals | MDA activates 1 national and 3 regional command and control vehicles | MDA teams partook in 100 live action drills | 8,000,000 emergency calls were received at MDA dispatch center (EMS & Covid19 related) | 4,369,738 were received at the 101 emergency line | an emergency call at MDA's 101 Emergency Dispatch Center is received every 7.2 seconds | MDA dispatchers answer an emergency phone call in less than 4 seconds | MDA placed 641 AEDs in public areas in 307 communities around Israel | 101 is MDA Emergency phone number.
