Chain of disasters involving children: An 11-year-old boy was evacuated this evening (Friday night) in serious condition after being injured in a car accident on Gra Street in Bnei Brak.
Rescue forces called to the scene provided him with initial medical treatment, and he was evacuated in serious condition for further treatment at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, with penetrating injuries to his upper body.
Rescue Chairman Asher Shlomowitz and rescuers Moishe Weiss and Zvi Ponfeder, who arrived first at the scene: "When we arrived at the scene, we found an 11-year-old boy suffering from injuries to his upper body, after being hit by a vehicle and as a result, being hit by a nearby fence.
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""Together with rescue and MDA medics and paramedics, we provided him with initial medical treatment, including stopping bleeding and applying bandages, and he was evacuated in serious condition for further treatment in the trauma room at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer.""
Paramedic at MDA Bar Cohen said: "We arrived at the scene and saw the child lying fully conscious after being hit by a vehicle. He suffered from multiple systemic injuries. We provided him with medical treatment that included stopping the bleeding, bandaging and administering medication for the pain, and we took him to the hospital with his condition defined as serious and stable.".
Laizer Margalit, a United Hatzalah medic who arrived first at the scene: "I left my nearby workplace after hearing cries for help and came across a child pedestrian, who according to passersby was hit by a vehicle and as a result suffered a chest injury. After the medical assistance I provided him at the scene of the accident, he was taken to Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer for further medical treatment.".
Earlier this evening, a two-year-old toddler choked while eating a pretzel in a public garden in Jerusalem.
The rescue workers who were called to the scene managed to extract the pretzel that was choking her from her windpipe - and miraculously, her heart started beating again.
Yossi Roth, Gershon Ginouar and David Bornstein, United Hatzalah paramedics: "We arrived at the scene and encountered a nurse performing massages on a girl, who, according to passersby, had choked on a pretzel. During the rapid treatment we performed on the girl, while suctioning the secretions (section), the piece of pretzel that caused her to choke was removed from her trachea and, miraculously, her heart started beating again.
""She was then evacuated in an intensive care unit to continue receiving medical treatment at the hospital in stable condition. There is no doubt that the rapid arrival of the paramedics who arrived with the United Hatzalah resuscitation kits and the quick action of the nurse who encountered the incident - while she was in the garden - helped save the girl's life.".
A 3-year-old Haredi toddler was suffocated this evening in her home on Herzog Street in Haifa.
The parents brought her to the store of Ihud Hatzala medic Shmuel Hertz, located on Bar Kochba Street - where she received rapid medical assistance, until the intensive care unit arrived - and she was evacuated to Rambam Hospital in the city, sedated and on a ventilator.
Shmuel Hertz and Shaul Kahlon, paramedics from United Hatzalah: "During the Heimlich maneuver we performed on the girl and attempts to extract the foreign body stuck in her trachea, miraculously she began to breathe again. She was then evacuated in stable condition to Rambam Hospital, where we were informed that she was hospitalized - sedated and on a ventilator.".
