- Title p-PSI0533
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- Summary Palestine Red Crescent Society Operations Centre, call taker Ahmad Harashe in April 2025 Ramallah, West Bank – Ahmad Harashe is a Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedic, dispatcher and first aid trainer. He’s been with PRCS for 18 years. In the PRCS Emergency Call Centre, they receive calls from the West Bank and Gaza and dispatch the right ambulance and team to respond to the situations It doesn’t always work. “At this time there [are] a lot of checkpoints. Sometimes we cannot send the ambulance to the city or the town or the village. If we can’t send the ambulance we try to manage and treat the case on the phone,” he said. Recently he helped the family of a women deliver her baby as she couldn’t leave the community to seek medical care. If the situation cannot be treated by phone, they send the patients to nearby doctors or nurses, and failing that they ask if people can be brought to the ambulance at the checkpoint. “We must be creative all the time. This job makes you creative.”. As a first responder trainer, Ahmad has been working with community members to be able to help each other. In one case, a volunteer trained by Ahmad was able to provide CPR until the ambulance he dispatched could arrive. His work is difficult and tiring he said, but “but sometimes, you feel, as I said, you feel, if you do a good thing, if you can help the people, it’s something great, something nice.”.. The Canadian Red Cross supports the work of the Palestine Red Crescent Society though an emergency response and community-based services project designed to respond to urgent needs of people in West Bank and Gaza affected by the violence that has escalated since October 7, 2023.
- Resolution Medium Resolution (Between 1MB and 3MB)
- Region MENA
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- XMP Create Date 2025-04-16T12:50:25-06:00
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- Date_Taken 9th April 2025
- Keywords Complex emergency, Conflict, Emergency health
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- Rights usage terms For non-commercial use
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- Copyright owner Angela Hill / Canadian Red Cross
- Country Occupied Palestinian territory
- Credit line Angela Hill / Canadian Red Cross
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