Yom Kippur 5784 Summary
During Yom Kippur MDA teams were on the highest level of alert. The stations were reinforced by volunteers, deploying ambulances and Medicycles in the communities and neighborhoods, activating First Responders in synagogues and next to the Western Wall.
MDA teams responded to 3,025 calls. 295 people fainted and suffered dehydration. 2,069 people were evacuated to hospitals.
MDA teams treated 307 children and adults injured while riding bicycles of all kinds and rollerblades, 34 car accidents victims of which, a 40 year old moderately injured.
37 people were injured in violent incidents.
MDA teams treated & evacuated to the hospitals 170 women in labor, and 4 women delivered their babies with the assistance of MDA teams.
During the holiday, MDA Blood Services supplied 161 blood units to the hospitals.
