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Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/health_science/article/bjll6pbsa
Meet Magen David Adom's Advanced Rescue Vehicles
(Ynet News) Dan Raban - Israel's national emergency service Magen David Adom maintains a fleet of special vehicles, funded by donations. MDA operates 2,000 ambulances, including 400 yellow intensive care ambulances, and 40 bulletproof ones. It has 3 Unimogs - a four-wheel-drive truck capable of transporting four patients lying down along with two crew members, a driver and a medical aide. In addition, MDA has 25 mass-casualty event vehicles, 20 jeeps, 16 ATVs, and an especially narrow ambulance used in Jerusalem's Old City. MDA also maintains 250 small Picanto cars, 50 electric vehicles, and 600 motorcycles. Moran Abu-Shakra, 24, from the Christian Arab village Eilabun in the Galilee, who has been volunteering with MDA since he was 15, said his motorcycle "is equipped with very specific, life-saving gear like an EpiPen for allergies, tourniquets, a defibrillator and more, which allows us to save someone's life until the ambulance team arrives. Additionally, we can also reach off-road areas and get to any injured person using the motorcycles." MDA Director-General Eli Bin said, "MDA's advanced fleet, which includes vehicles capable of operating in complex terrains and weather conditions, brings our teams one step closer to providing rapid and professional care to patients and the injured."