United Hatzalah
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| legal form | Life saving society |
| founding | 2006 |
| founder | Eli Beer |
| Seat | Israel |
| main emphasis | First responder emergency assistance |
| sales | USD 3,500,000 (2011) |
| Volunteers | 2000 |
| Website | www.1221.org.il |
United Hatzalah ( Hebrew איחוד הצלה hatzalah , rescue) is a first aid rescue organization in Israel . It was founded in 2006 by Eli Beer in order to unite the previously existing isolated Hatzalah groups in Israel and organize them centrally. The organization is fully funded by donations. Volunteers are both Jewish and Arab Israelis. Help is given regardless of race or religion. No fee is charged for emergency care.
history
As a child of American immigrants in Israel, Eli Beer experienced the Yom Kippur War and the terrorist attacks in Jerusalem that shaped him. As a teenager he began to volunteer in the ambulance service at Magen David Adom . In doing so, he repeatedly experienced that the regular ambulance service came too late for emergencies and could no longer do anything for the patients. In 1989 he founded his own organization, which he also called Hatzalah , based on Jewish rescue services from the USA . In contrast to a regular rescue service, however, he only wanted to establish rapid first aid for injured and sick people as a supplement to existing rescue services. In 2006 he founded United Hatzalah of Israel to unite and bundle the dispersed Hatzalah groups.
Field of activity
United Hatzalah operates a nationwide first responder network with more than 2000 volunteers. The exclusively voluntary helpers are certified emergency medical technicians or paramedics as well as doctors . United Hatzalah operates its own control center, which can be reached on 1221. A GPS-based location and deployment management system ( Life Compass ) developed in-house can identify and alert the next suitable helper in an emergency. As a result, United Hatzalah claims to have an arrival time at the emergency location of less than 3 minutes after the alarm. The self-set goal is an arrival time of less than 90 seconds after the alarm. United Hatzalah helpers, as first responders, bridge the time until the regular emergency services arrive , which can take up to 10 minutes in urban areas and up to 20 minutes in rural areas. Every minute earlier that defibrillation occurs in cases of cardiac arrest from heart attack , electric shock , drowning , suffocation , trauma, and illegal drugs , survival increases by 7 to 10 percent. For this purpose, emergency equipment with a defibrillator , oxygen and airway safety and trauma supplies are carried on the so-called ambucycles . So-called ambutractors based on lightweight off- road karts are used for operations in rough terrain . A makeshift patient transport is also possible with these. United Hatzalah also operates its own ambulance .
Around 200,000 first responder missions are carried out in Israel every year.
Projects and Actions
In 2011 and 2012 numerous bumper stickers with the campaign slogan were distributed in Hebrew, Arabic, English and Russian as part of the “Don't leave me alone in the car” campaign. The action was the result of the death of a toddler left behind in the car in summer temperatures, which triggered a lot of media coverage in Israel. As part of the Ten Kavod program, United Hatzalah volunteers sponsor older lonely citizens and visit them regularly and help them in everyday life.
International reception
There are attempts to export United Hatzalah's successful first responder model to other countries. Similar first responder systems have already been started in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro , as well as in Panama and Argentina. There is also interest in India and Denmark in trying out the United Hatzalah model.
Awards
- 2010 Social Entrepreneur of the Year (Israel)
- 2010 Presidential Award for Volunteerism (Israel)
- 2012 Young Global Leaders Award
- 2013 Peace Prize for the Middle East from the Victor J. Goldberg Institute
Web links
- Friends of United Hatzalah of Israel (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Akiva Novick: Haredi, Arab saving lives together . Y-Net News online, August 9, 2011; Retrieved November 25, 2013
- ↑ a b Felice Friedson: Israel's fast, free and innovative way to save lives . ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Jewish Journal , July 11, 2012; Retrieved November 25, 2013
- ↑ Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care . (PDF) American Heart Association
- ↑ a b Scattered Saviors First aid that gets there first . The Economist, Jan. 28, 2012; Retrieved November 25, 2013
- ^ New Campaign: Don't Leave Me Alone in the Car . Israel National News, February 9, 2012; Retrieved November 25, 2013
- ^ NS Ramnath: How An Israeli Organization Could Help Accident Victims In India . Forbes India, April 12, 2012; Retrieved November 25, 2013
- ↑ A flash mob that saves lives . In: Die Zeit , No. 40/2014, p. 40
- ↑ United Hatzalah leaders receive prize for peace in the Mid East . Jerusalem Post, June 24, 2013; Retrieved November 25, 2013
