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Magen David Adom from page 14 more sophisticated equipment, which enables the team’s together, we can ensure that our communities are always
doctors and paramedics to perform various medical fully protected.”
Magen Project, MDA will expand the scope of its training procedures in the field, such as opening airways. There are multiple sponsorship opportunities for
activities, with special training programs for volunteer “The communities are the best authorities on what they the Magen Project available to donors. To learn more
CERT teams in as many communities as possible. need,” says Uri Shacham, MDA’s chief of staff. “We’re OR to get involved locally in Boca Raton, please reach
In addition to recruiting residents with no medical working with each locality in a very personalized way to out to Yishai Mizrahi, the Area Director for AFMDA
background, the Magen Project encourages doctors, provide the kind of training and equipment that will be in Boca Raton/Delray Beach, at 561.288.5658 or via
paramedics and nurses to volunteer for the Community of most use to them.” email at YMizrahi@afmda.org.
Emergency Response Team in their place of residence. Additionally, MDA is making Multi-Casualty Rescue Your dedication is immeasurable, and we are forever
These professionals undergo a special training course, at Units available to the Magen Project. These large trailers grateful. Am Yisrael Chai. 
a more advanced level than the lay volunteers. Altogether, have the capacity to treat up to 20 wounded patients at
each CERT comprises between 10 and 25 members who a time and are stocked with large amounts of medical
are integrated in the local security apparatus. supplies. The plan also calls for supplying CERTs with
In addition, MDA certifies two members of each emergency response vehicles which will be permanently Please Be Courteous
community’s security team as EMTs, so that, when parked inside the different communities and will be the
necessary, emergency medical care can be provided responsibility of two or three CERT members. Pedestrians
even when access to the community is temporarily The Magen Project will be digitally connected to
compromised. By being prepared in advance for scenarios Magen David Adom’s sophisticated database and dispatch have the
such as what happened on October 7th, where it was system. The CERT volunteers will be registered in the
impossible to promptly evacuate severely wounded MDA system and dispatched to medical emergencies in right of way!
victims, the Community Emergency Response Teams their communities through the official MDA network. “In
can save lives during the critical window of time after a the event of an emergency in an isolated community, MDA
person is wounded. dispatchers at our operations center will be in contact with
Personalized training and equipment the designated community medics, who will describe
Each CERT team receives supplies based on its the urgent needs with the level of detail and speed that
members’ level of knowledge and experience as well as on is crucial in such scenarios,” explains Shacham. “With
local needs. Communities where the emergency response resources and training provided by Magen David Adom,
team is composed entirely of non-medical professionals and full integration with our cutting-edge dispatch
receive basic first-aid supplies. When there are advanced system, we can maximize the potential that already exists
healthcare providers on the team, the supplies include in Israel’s towns and neighborhoods,” he adds. “Working

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