On Wednesday afternoon a 12-Year-Old boy was seriously injured while walking up the stairs in a building that was being remodeled on Rabban Gamliel Street in Bnei Brak.

The boy slipped and fell approximately 3 meters (12 feet) according to reports by investigators and sustained severe head injuries.

Magen David Adom ambulance teams and United Hatzalah volunteer responders were dispatched to the scene of the accident and provided first aid treatment at the scene. The boy was then taken to Tel Hashomer Medical Center. The boy was heavily sedated and put on a respirator en route to the hospital.

Yoni Tzadok, a volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah said: “When I got to the scene of the accident, along with other EMS personnel, we gave emergency first aid treatment to a boy who had fallen from a staircase in an apartment building and had suffered head injuries and injuries to his upper torso. After we treated him at the scene of the accident, he was evacuated via a mobile intensive care unit in serious condition to the hospital in Tel Hashomer.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)