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Tag Archives: Haifa
Beitar Illit Man and Haifa Woman Saved in Separate Incidents Involving Successful CPR 15 minutes apart
On Tuesday morning two people were saved after suffering cardiac arrests thanks to the quick intervention of emergency medical personnel. The first incident took place on Hatanya Street in Beitar Illit just before 9:00 a.m. when a man in his … Continue reading
Posted in Press, UH Volunteer Features
Tagged Beitar Illit, Cardiac Arrest, CPR, EMT, Haifa, United Hatzalah, volunteers
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105-Year-Old Haifa Woman Chokes In Her Home, Successfully Resuscitated
On Tuesday morning, a 105-year-old woman choked while eating her breakfast in her own home in Haifa. Both her son-in-law and her caretaker were with her as her face turned blue and she started to lose consciousness. Upon recognizing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Choking, CPR, Elderly care, Emergency, EMT, first responder, Haifa, Israel, United Hatzalah, volunteers
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Soccer Fan Suffers Cardiac Arrest Mid-Game Rescued By On-Scene Paramedic
Almost three weeks ago, on Monday evening at the soccer game between Hapoel Be’er Sheva and Maccabi Haifa in the Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium in Be’er Sheva, Yossi Cohen, a 42-year-old man, suffered a cardiac arrest. Fortunately, United Hatzalah volunteer … Continue reading
Posted in Press, Uncategorized
Tagged Cardiac Arrest, CPR, Haifa, Israel, Israeli Soccer, Paramedic, Soccer, United Hatzalah, volunteers
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United Hatzalah Ambulance Team Saves Choking Victim On Rosh HaShanah
Just after 2:30 pm on Wednesday afternoon, the second day of Rosh HaShanah, United Hatzalah regional paramedic Doron Shapir, was in the middle of an ambulance shift on the organization’s mobile intensive care ambulance in the Haifa region, when he … Continue reading
Posted in Press, UH Volunteer Features, Vehicles
Tagged Ambulance, Choking, CPR, EMS, EMT, First Responders, Haifa, Hospital, Kiryat Motzkin, MICU, mobile intensive care, United Hatzalah
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Providing Better Care For My Patients By Befriending Fellow First Responders
Yitzhak Sheinberg, a United Hatzalah volunteer from Haifa, works as a nurse’s assistant for a local health clinic. He is married and has two children. Since the summer, Yitzhak has also been working as a Covid-19 test-taker and has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Accident, e-bike, electric Bicycle, emergency bike, EMS, EMT, First Responders, Friends, Haifa, Israel, United Hatzalah
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Anaphylactic Reaction Nearly Brings Tragedy To Quiet Shabbat Meal
Two months ago, a family was sitting in their home in Haifa on Friday night for their Shabbat meal. Everything was carrying on as normal until the mother noticed that her 4-year-old son was having trouble breathing. She asked her … Continue reading
Posted in UH Volunteer Features, Uncategorized
Tagged Allergy, anaphylaxis, Friday night, Haifa, hummus, Israel, meal, Shabbat, United Hatzalah
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Teams of Furloughed Volunteers Throughout The Country Deliver Food To Elderly And People in Isolation
United Hatzalah volunteers across Israel have initiated a campaign working together with social services of local and regional councils to deliver food packages to those in need of financial assistance, people stuck in isolation and the elderly. Volunteers have already … Continue reading
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Tagged Arad, Bnei Brak, Corona, Coronavirus, Dov Maisel, elderly, Food, food distributiion, Haifa, Holocaust survivors, Israel, Jerusalem, Kiryat Ata, Ma'alot, Nahariya, Yokne'am
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Giving the Gift That Keeps on Giving
Amir Hayek, is an I.T. specialist, a volunteer in a French Christian religious hospice called The Sacred Heart, or Sacre Coeur, and a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT and ambucycle driver. Hayek, an Israeli Christian, chose to volunteer at the convent … Continue reading
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Tagged Amir Hayek, Christian, CPR, EMS, EMT, Haifa, Sacre Coeur, United Hatzalah
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Following A Medical Emergency One EMT Became A Kindergarten Teacher For A Day
This past Monday, a medical emergency took place in Haifa that ended with an interesting twist. United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Raphael Israel was on his way to his Mechanical engineering class at the Technion University when he received an emergency … Continue reading
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Tagged Daycare, EMS, EMT, Haifa, Israel, Kindergarten, Teacher, Volunteer
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United Hatzalah Volunteers Donate Six Tons of Food To Needy Families in Carmel Region
United Hatzalah volunteers from the Carmel region once again organized their annual “Kimcha DePischa” food drive and helped to organize the collection of foods for Pesach/Passover to be handed out to needy members of their communities. United Hatzalah volunteers gathered … Continue reading
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Tagged Carmel, communtiy, Eli Beer, Family, Haifa, Israel, Needy, United Hatzalah
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