Ribbon cutting with Haifa mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem
IsraelSeen Exclusive – Leaving City Hall To Save A Life
Nati Danah is a devoted volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah. He is a father of four and serves as the Assistant Team Leader for United Hatzalah’s lifesaving activities in Haifa and the Carmel region. In addition to his EMS work, Danah is active in the Psychotrauma Crisis and Response Unit, and coordinates United Hatzalah’s emergency room hospital assistance project with local hospitals and serves as the coordinator for the organization’s Ten Kavod program, providing wellness visits and free checkups to many elderly people who live on their own, throughout the Carmel region.
A few weeks ago, Danah was present at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new ambucycle that was being donated to a United Hatzalah volunteer at Haifa City Hal. Also present at the ceremony was Haifa Mayor Einat Kalisch-Rotem, Deputy Mayor Michi Elphar, and United Hatzalah regional leader Naftali Rotenberg. While the ceremony was taking place, police officers in central Haifa found a man suffering violent seizures and called for help. United Hatzalah’s dispatch put out the call to the closest volunteers in the area, one of which was Danah.
Danah received the emergency alert on his phone and hopped on the very ambucycle that was being dedicated. The Mayor and her team were very impressed to see events unfold before their very eyes Danah briefly apologized for running out on the VIPs and sped off to help the seizing man. With sirens blaring Danah wound through the downtown traffic and arrived at the scene in less than 60 seconds.
Danah found the 50-year-old man convulsing wildly. Danah carefully positioned the patient to ensure his physical safety and administered high-flow oxygen. After a few minutes, the man’s seizures subsided. The ambulance team arrived to evacuate the now-stabilized patient to the hospital and Nati returned to City Hall, to continue the ceremony. The officials present were most appreciative of his lifesaving efforts.
“This is the mission,” Danah said after the ceremony ended. “When an emergency occurs, we don’t think twice. We go and we help. It doesn’t matter if we are in the supermarket or meeting with the Mayor. Our mission is to help others whenever the emergency call comes in. So that is what I did and that is how we are able to help people as quickly as we do. I am proud to be a part of this organization.”
