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A Paramedic Describes the Meron Disaster

(Maariv-Jerusalem Post) Magen David Adom paramedic Omri Gorga told 103 FM radio: "It took me a minute or two from the moment I arrived at the scene, and realized that there was CPR being done on four people, to understand that I have 20 more unconscious people....I got there to help a teammate and was horrified to find that it was with CPR on a 12-year-old." When asked how you decide who to treat first with so many casualties, Gorga said, "Whoever is showing signs of life, we fight for their lives. If someone is not showing signs of life, we need to invest our strength in other patients who will survive." "Within minutes, there was an amazing gathering of staff," Gorga said. "In my wildest dreams I didn't think that I could gather that much manpower in a matter of seconds in such a crowded place....We split up the area into sections and started working." Asked what his hardest moment was, Gorga said, "I was knocked to the ground [by the crowd], and I found myself lying next to a 12-year-old boy who was killed. When I tried to get up, the crowd was just running over me, and I was lying next to him."
2021-05-03 00:00:00
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