'Ihud Hatzala is expanding its activities worldwide and helping to establish volunteer emergency medical organizations identical to Ihud Hatzala in Dubai, India and Bangladesh: Ihud Hatzala President Eli Bir participated in a special conference for volunteer organizations held in Dubai, during which he reached an agreement with Shafi Maher, founder of the giant Indian ambulance company ZIQITZA, on a cooperation agreement, within the framework of which sister organizations to Ihud Hatzala will be established in India, Dubai and Bangladesh.
The collaboration began two years ago, when Bir and Maher met at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Maher was very enthusiastic about the success of the Ihud Hatzalah volunteers in Israel in quickly reaching anyone in need of medical help, and suggested that Bir collaborate on establishing a similar volunteer network in the areas of operation of his ambulance company, which is the largest in India and includes 1,600 ambulances, and a large branch in Dubai.
Bir said upon his return to Israel that the volunteer organizations in India, Dubai and Bangladesh will adopt the working methods of United Hatzalah in Israel. The local volunteers will be equipped with identical first aid kits and defibrillators (a device that restores the heart's rhythm to regular operation by administering an electric shock).
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Some of them will have fast ambulances (motorcycle ambulances) at their disposal and they will adopt the nowforce launch system, which is installed on the Israeli volunteers' smartphones and launches them to emergency calls in the environment in which they are located.
And why did Bir, along with the director of international activities of the United Hatzalah, Dovi Maisel, walk through the streets of Dubai dressed as Arab sheikhs?
In a self-video he filmed, Beer is seen saying that a philanthropist who regularly donates to United Hatzalah heard that he was in Dubai and suggested that if the two went out on the street dressed as sheikhs and documented it, the philanthropist would donate two ambulance motorcycles to the organization worth more than a quarter of a million shekels.
According to United Hatzalah, Beer and Maisel took up the gauntlet and in the footage they are seen speaking Hebrew in the middle of a busy street in Arabic.
The filming of the video, they claim, was interrupted after the two attracted the attention of local police.
