Uri Shacham, head of director-general’s Office, discusses how MDA’s preparedness saved lives.
“On October 7, Magen David Adom team members found themselves as key players in the worst tragedy Israel has ever experienced,” Uri Shacham, head of MDA’s Director-General’s Office, said Monday at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference.
The organization was able to respond promptly on October 7 because of its 30,000-strong team of volunteers who heroically stepped forward, its state-of-the-art technology that enabled it to dispatch ambulances speedily, and its fleet of 1,400 ambulances, he said in an interview.
Fifteen minutes into the Hamas attack, MDA dispatchers received reports from personnel in the Gaza communities of shots being fired, Shacham said. By 7 am, Hamas terrorists had attacked an MDA ambulance, critically wounding the EMTs inside.
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