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March 4, 2019 15:24
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MDA: A life-saving legacy to Israel  

Magen David Adom is Israel’s only national medical emergency and blood service. It is responsible for the primary healthcare for all of Israel’s citizens, irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity. Remarkably, it provides this service as a non-governmental agency, dependent on funds from donors across the world in order to carry out its life-saving work.

Magen David Adom UK is one of the largest providers of this funding. Each year, supporters contribute more than £5 million, to fund everything from bandages and blood bags to ambulances and bloodmobiles.

This figure is achieved through the efforts of marathon runners, cake sellers, sponsored skydivers and pretty much everyone in between. And critically, the ever-increasing number of people who remember Magen David Adom in their will plays a significant part in ensuring the medics, paramedics and 22,000 volunteers (Israel’s largest volunteer organisation) have the tools they need to save more lives.