Even though the past few months have meant a lot of time away from Orit Ohana’s family and students, a warm smile still fills the Magen David Adom volunteer paramedic’s face, and she is full of optimism and pride.
Besides volunteering for MDA for the past 20 years as a paramedic and Mobile Intensive Care Unit driver, the mother of 7 is also a science teacher at a secondary school. She did not hesitate to drop everything to help others when she was called to the MDA reserves on October 7.
Ohana describes how on the morning of October 7, she received a call from the manager of the MDA station in Beit She’an asking her to drive an ambulance to the south of Israel. She treated severely injured revelers at the site of the music festival in Re’im before transporting them to Soroka Hospital in Be’er Sheva. She was then sent to work in the north of Israel, which was experiencing rocket attacks from Lebanon, and where she went on to spend 72 days.
“I feel very proud to be a part of this organization,” says Ohana.
