A Joint adventure: MDA volunteers are training new immigrants and local residents in First Aid at Ashkelon Jewish Agency Absorption Center
It will start in Amharic on Thursday, March 6 at 19:00 hours, then on Sunday, March 9, 2008 40 Russian speakers will be trained at 18:00, simultaneously a course in French will be held for French speakers. Spanish & English speakers will be trained too.
At this moment (March 4, 2008) a drill including all emergency forces in Ashkelon – MDA, POLICE, FIRE FIGHTERS - is conducted: the pretense: a high rise building with hundreds of occupants hit by kassams, Grads, or other rockets.
How to screen the casualties. How to evacuate them.
MDA Director of the Southern region, Yehuda Shoshan leads MDA forces in coordination with all representatives.
6 ambulance teams, 4 MICU & 1 MCRV as well; as Lachish 90 (Helicopter) together with 15 First Responders participate in the drill treating scores of (fake) casualties.
Today, March 4, 2008, early morning, another miracle in Sderot: a direct hit has destroyed a private residence and damaged the surrounding houses: the 70 year old couple, one of Sderot founders left yesterday afternoon to stay at their chikldren's house in Givataym. No casualties reported.
Today, March 4, 2008, 2 Palestinian patients will be transferred for medical treatment in an Israeli hospital from the Erez Checkpoint by MDA medics.
So far, no casualties reported over the last 16 hours.
