An Israeli medical emergency organization has trained
Bedouin men and women as EMTs, thus providing fast and professional
emergency medical response in their hometowns.
A new team of 13 Bedouin women and four men from the towns of
Shibli and Umm al-Ghanam have recently completed their training to become EMS
first responders and have begun to provide emergency medical services in their
vicinity.
The new graduates volunteer as medical first responders in their
hometowns as well as the Arab and Jewish towns in their environs, as part of
the national Israeli EMS volunteer organization United Hatzalah.
“The new group of volunteers are very close-knit and very excited
to learn these new skills and be able to provide EMS services in their
communities,” said EMS instructor Samara Allah, the United Hatzalah instructor
who taught the group of new EMTs. “The women in the group are especially
excited as it allows them to help those in need around them, something which
they all have a strong desire to do”
United Hatzalah Founder and President Eli Beer expressed his
appreciation for the new volunteers.
“One of the main reasons why we felt that this project was
important is because the women who make up the crux of this course often stay
at home or work in their towns during the day, much more than the men do. Thus,
these new volunteers will be able to provide an emergency medical response in
their towns during the daytime hours something which has been lacking thus
far,” Beer stated.
Beer added that United Hatzalah is working to increase the number
of volunteers in the Galileeand Israel’s periphery in an
effort to reduce EMS response times across the area, and especially in outlying Bedouin villages that often have
long waits for ambulances.
“It is important to us to provide fast and professional emergency
medical response to all of Israel’s citizens, regardless of their race,
religion, ethnicity or gender,” Beer said.
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