Magen David Adom (MDA) Israel’s Red Cross Service; recently announced the opening of the first MDA Medical Emergency Clinic (MEC) in the Arab sector, serving the villages of Arabe, Sahnen and Dir-Hana and the local Bedouins, in central Galilee. The MEC is administered by an elected executive committee, which includes several local Arab community leaders, and the committee is already hoping for additional assistance and ambulances, to enable the clinic to develop and expand its services to meet the area’s needs. The MDA hopes to provide this increased aid to the new MEC and expects that it will serve as a model for future MDA Emergency Clinics in the Arab sector. In operation for only two months, emergency treatment at the MEC has already been credited with saving at least one life and its ambulances have responded to many calls, including road accidents and new births.
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