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Acre: 80-year-old man in critical condition after being pulled unconscious from the sea | Israel Hayom

6/23/2023, 10:56:10 AM

Highlights: MDA medical teams were called to Argaman Beach in Acre. They pulled a man unconscious from the sea. Medics and paramedics gave him medical treatment. They evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. He is now in a critical condition in the shock room, MDA said. The man is believed to be an 80-year-old man from Acre, Israel. He was pulled from the water by lifeguards at Argaman beach in the early hours of Friday.


Lifeguards at Argaman Beach pulled a faint man from the sea in critical condition • MDA teams performed CPR on him at the scene and evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center •

MDA medical teams were called Friday morning to Argaman Beach in Acre following reports of a man being pulled unconscious from the sea. Medics and paramedics gave him medical treatment and evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya while performing CPR.

"When we reached the beach, we teamed up with the rescuers who treated the man," said senior medics from MDA's motorcycle unit, Yehuda and Shimon Dahan. "He appeared unconscious in the water to us and they pulled him out. We continued the medical treatment and evacuated him while performing CPR to hospital in critical condition."

The Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya said: "An 80-year-old man who drowned on a beach in Acre was brought. His condition is defined as critical and he is undergoing CPR in the shock room, which was started by MDA in the field."

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