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United Hatzalah volunteer Roni Sela was recently honored by Rannana’s Mayor Zeev Bielski  for saving a 58-year-old man in cardiac arrest by using a defibrillator to shock the man’s heart back to life as well as for the many other calls Roni has answered to save lives.

Each year 25,000 people in Israel suffer a heart attack. In the case of a cardiac arrest, without the intervention of a defibrillator, the chance of survival is only 5%. Roni, as a United Hatzalah volunteer ambucycle medic, arrived on the scene two minutes after the emergency call with the defibrillator that comes equipped with his ambucycle. It took four shocks from the defibrillator, but finally the man’s pulse returned.

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“Heart attacks can happen to anyone, at any time,” said Eli Beer, founder and president of United Hatzalah of Israel. “Because brain cells begin to die within minutes of cardiac arrest, it is crucial that our volunteers are dispatched to arrive quickly in these situations. Defibrillators help reinstate a pulse and increase the survival rate from cardiac arrest to 75 percent. Today, our volunteers lack enough equipment to properly respond to the several heart attack calls we receive daily. We wish we could do more to help.”

United Hatzalah’s 3,000 community based volunteer medics are usually the first on scene of emergency calls treating 260,000 people in the last year alone. Right now, only 30% of United Hatzalah volunteers possess the defibrillators needed to respond to cardiac arrests.

In an effort to supply half of all United Hatzalah volunteers with defibrillators, three generous donors have agreed to match all donations to United Hatzalah’s Save the Pulse campaign. Every dollar donated will be quadrupled in an effort to raise $1 million for new defibrillators before December 31st.

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You can give Israelis a better chance at life by equipping medically trained emergency response volunteers with sufficient defibrillators to return the pulse to those in need.

Join the race to save lives by contributing to United Hatzalah’s “Save the Pulse” campaign today.