Medical professionals and paramedics from 18 countries will be competing in a lifesaving “Olympics” hosted in Israel.
The first MDA Olympics, initiated by MDA director-general Eli Bin and medical division director Dr. Zvi Feigenberg, took place in 2006 around the Kinneret and the Western Galilee. But this year’s competition will bring more medical teams – 40 – from more countries and will open on the top of Masada.
The competitions are aimed at testing the professionalism and capabilities of the medical teams – in saving lives. Medics and paramedics from MDA, the IDF and international emergency services from Turkey, Canada, Ireland, England, Holland, Norway, the US, Germany, the Czech Republic, France, Jordan and Poland will participate.
On the two consecutive days, the teams will go through 11 stations of treatment and safety, including one at night, during which they will have to deal with various scenes that will test their capabilities for giving proper treatment responses, medical response for “victims” of a mass casualty incident, treatment for conventional and non-conventional incidents and also giving life-saving treatment to patients and victims with problems in the fields of trauma, cardiology, pediatrics and respiratory emergencies.
Meanwhile, in Gaza, medical professionals are engaged in a different kind of lifesaving Olympics. They are running as fast as they can to get away from the Hamas authorities in order to save their own lives.
Speaking from Ramallah, Zakarnah told Ma’an, “De facto government police on Tuesday arrested Maysarah Fayyad, a nurse who works at Mubarak Hospital, Dr Kamal An-Namlah, head of surgeons at Nasser Hospital, Dr Abdul-Halim Al-Masri, from Ash-Shifa Hospital, Wisam Karim, administration employee at Muhammad Ad-Durrah Hospital, Usamah As-Sa’idi and Muhammad Lafi from Muhammad Ad-Durrah Hospital.
He added that de facto government security assaulted the arrestees, beating while them in detention at Al-Mashtal prison in order to pressure them to end strike.
“The one who supervised interrogation of the arrestees was Salih Kaheel, director of de facto government detectives in Gaza City,†Zakarnah added.
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
