The drowning continues: two 70-year-olds in critical condition after drowning in the sea and pool
The drownings occurred at Bat Galim Beach in Haifa and at a public pool in Kiryat Ono.
The two men underwent resuscitation and were evacuated to Rambam and Beilinson Hospital. These cases join a series of eight drownings in the past week, four of which ended in death.
Karin Sagi
15/07/2022
Friday, 15 July 2022, 12:37 Updated: 13:03
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In the video: Hani Abu Rish, who saved his daughter from drowning, is laid to rest (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
Two men in their 70s drowned today (Friday) and were seriously injured.
The drownings occurred at the beach and in a public pool, joining a string of deadly drownings across the country in the past week.
The first drowning occurred in the morning on Bat Galim beach in Haifa.
The MDA team that arrived at the scene provided medical treatment to the man and evacuated him to Rambam Hospital in the city when he was in critical condition, and performed resuscitation operations there.
The man was lying unconscious, with no pulse and no breathing.
70-year-old Teva near Haifa (Photo: MDA)
"When we reached the shoreline, we saw the man lying unconscious, with no pulse and no breathing," an MDA medic told me a reporter.
We provided him with medical treatment and evacuated him to the hospital in a critical condition during the resuscitation operations. "
In the second case, a 70-year-old man lost consciousness, apparently due to a medical background, in a public pool in Kiryat Ono. CPR that included delivering electric shocks with a defibrillator.
Recovering the man's pulse, the MDA team evacuated him to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.
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A father and his house killed by drowning in Palmachim earlier this week (Photo: MDA)
Over the past week, four people have been killed as a result of drowning, and 4 more people have been hospitalized.
The wave of drownings began with the death of IPS officer Abu Rish, a 49-year-old resident of Yarka, when he rescued his 17-year-old daughter from drowning. Drowned to death on an undeclared beach in Palmachim Yesterday, 5-year-old Edim Jabarin Maum al-Fahm, who drowned in the Kibbutzim River in the Springs Valley, was pronounced dead
. They were evacuated to Barzilai Hospital in the city, where the 12-year-old is in a serious condition and is still breathing, and the rest is mild to moderate.
According to MDA data, updated for last night, since the beginning of the bathing season in April, at least 123 people needed medical treatment after drowning and were pulled from the sea, pools and water reservoirs. 74 easily.
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