Three young sisters were rushed to the hospital on Shabbos morning after ingesting a large quantity of medication at their home in the Ramat Daled neighborhood of Beit Shemesh, while in a separate incident in Bnei Brak, a 6-year-old girl suffered moderate burns after boiling water spilled on her from a hot-water urn.
The three sisters, ages 1, 2 and 3, were found with diminished levels of consciousness after family members discovered that they had apparently swallowed a significant quantity of medication.
Emergency personnel from Tzevet Hatzalah and Magen David Adom were dispatched to the Beit Shemesh home and provided the children with initial medical treatment before transporting them to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Yerushalayim. All three were reported to be in stable condition at the time of transport.
Tzevet Hatzalah Shabbos responders, paramedic Nati Ben Shimon and EMTs Kobi Marder and Yehoshua Gottlieb, described the scene.
“When we arrived at the scene with the MDA ambulances that we staff, we were directed into a home, where we saw three sisters, toddlers aged one, two and three, with diminished levels of consciousness, after family members told us that they had swallowed a large quantity of medication,” they said.
“Together with additional MDA EMTs and paramedics, we provided them with initial medical assistance and evacuated them via an MDA mobile intensive care unit and ambulance in stable condition for further treatment at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Yerushalayim.”
Following the frightening incident, Tzevet Hatzalah reminded parents of the importance of keeping medications and other potentially dangerous substances stored in high, secure locations that are inaccessible to children.
In a separate emergency on Shabbos afternoon, United Hatzalah medical personnel responded to Rav Brutt Street in Bnei Brak after a girl approximately 6 years old was badly burned by boiling water that spilled from a hot-water urn.
The girl suffered burns to multiple areas of her body and was treated at the scene before being transported to Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer. Her condition was listed as moderate.
Yosef Bruchim, a United Hatzalah EMT, Shabbos responder and ambulance driver, said rescuers were told that the boiling water had spilled onto the girl’s face, limbs and back.
“We were told that the girl suffered burns to her face, limbs and back after a hot-water urn containing boiling water spilled on her,” Bruchim said. “With the assistance of additional EMTs, I provided her with medical treatment and evacuated her in a United Hatzalah ambulance to Sheba Hospital at Tel Hashomer for further medical treatment, with her condition defined as moderate.”
United Hatzalah used the incident to remind parents to place hot-water urns and electric kettles in locations that cannot be reached by young children.
The organization also stressed that electrical cords connected to kettles and hot-water urns should be kept entirely out of the reach of children and toddlers, since pulling on a cord can cause a container of boiling water to fall and result in severe burns.
{Matzav.com}
