The following is the Magen David Adom recap of activities pertaining to New Year’s Eve 2018.

During the night, MDA teams prepared on special alert provided medical treatment to hundreds of patients and casualties throughout the country, including 25 casualties in road accidents, all of them light.

17 people were injured in violence, including two in medium condition; a 30-year-old man who was stabbed in his upper body in Beersheva, and was transprotred to Soroka Hospital and a 35-year-old man who was stabbed in the head in Tel Aviv and evacuated to Ichilov Hospital.

51 teenagers and adults in a mild and stable condition required medical treatment and evacuation to hospitals after consuming too much alcohol. Thirteen people were evacuated to hospitals after fainting.

During the night nine maternity patients were evacuated to the hospital, and the first baby in 2018 was born by MDA teams at 5:20 in Kiryat Malachi.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)