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Bnei Brak Hatzoloh Volunteers Help Save the Life of Child in New York

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

Permission to perform an emergency operation for a child hospitalized in New York was secured on Yom Kippur, thanks to the dedication of the on-duty staff of Tel Aviv's Mogen David Adom and the resourcefulness of Bnei Brak's Hatzoloh volunteers.

At 1:30 AM on Yom Kippur, Tel Aviv's Mogen David Adom (MDA) headquarters received an urgent call from Meir, a paramedic from New York, asking the Mogen David Adom staff to help him locate an American family that was visiting Bnei Brak. The on- duty staff members MDA contacted Bnei Brak's Hatzoloh volunteers and asked them to try to locate this family whose nine-year-old son had remained in America, and who had to undergo an emergency operation which could not be conducted without parental consent. The child had suffered a serious epileptic attack.

Since it was Yom Kippur, no one answered the phone in the home of the child's relatives in Bnei Brak, and it was feared that the operation would have to be postponed. M.R., a Hatzoloh volunteer living near the family whom the parents were visiting, knocked on the doors of a number of families with similar names. After three abortive attempts, he finally found the child's parents, who immediately contacted the hospital in New York and authorized the operation, saving their son's life.

Bnei Brak's Hatzoloh volunteers were trained by Mogen David Adom, and are top ranking medical assistants, working as volunteers with Mogen David Adom. All Hatzoloh volunteers abide by the guidelines of prominent halachic authorities.


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