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Detroiters have donated 240 ambulances to Magen David Adorn. The MICU (Mobile
Intensive Care Unit) is considered a hospital on wheels.
Summer To Remember
College student experiences the drama
and joy of Israel's medical emergencies.
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their four weeks of duty. Following training,
Krohner was assigned to the MDA station
in Bet Shemesh — one of 118 such facilities
in Israel collectively answering more than
500,000 calls a year.
Krohner's interest in MDA has familial
roots. Her maternal grandparents, Joanne and
Arnold Zuroff, were ardent believers in MDA.
"At the start of volunteering; Krohner said,
"I was very nervous, never having witnessed
firsthand, let alone assisting in, a high-
pressure emergency situation. The moment I
arrived at the station, though, the welcoming
attitude of the MDA staff calmed my nerves.
It was made clear to myself and to the three
other volunteers working with me there that
we were not only very welcome, but also were
expected to serve as an integral unit of the sta-
tion's staff."
Once trained, Krohner, who commuted to
work from Jerusalem, had no time to wonder.
On her first day of work, right after meeting
the ambulance driver for her morning shift
and learning about the daily check of equip-
ment, the station phone rang.
It was an emergency call.
With Krohner aboard, the ambulance sped
from the station. She was a tumble of nerves,
not knowing what to expect, but trying hard
to grasp what was happening, everything from
translating the dispatcher's Hebrew updates
into understandable English, to preparing
to treat the patient, to snapping on protec-
five gloves. That first patient was a woman in
labor, who got to the hospital in time, calming
Krohner's excited heart rate.
After a few hours and two more calls,
Krohner settled into the routine — tak-
ing blood pressure and pulse readings and
making sure patients were as comfortable as
possible — while racing through traffic to
Jerusalem hospitals.
t's a heart-pounding, but exhilarating
both located in Ashdod. And it donates to
experience that teaches young people
stem-cell research and scientific research
who already appreciate the value of life
equipment for the MDA National Blood
how to help save lives under the
Services Center in Ramat Gan.
stress of medical emergencies
MDA supplies 97 percent of the
in Israel, where ambulance runs
blood to all hospitals in Israel and
include the obvious situations as
100 percent of the blood required
well as the haunting possibility of
by the Israel Defense Forces.
terrorist attacks.
The youngest of four children
The summertime work of
of Sheryl and Eric Krohner,
trained volunteers for Israel's emer-
Shoshana grew up in Oak Park,
gency response teams is all about
where she attended Beth Jacob,
giving in a very special way to the
part of the Southfield-based
Jewish ancestral homeland.
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. She later
"I feel more than ever that I
graduated from the Yeshiva of
spent my summer in the best way
Greater Washington in Silver
possible,' says Shoshana Krohner, an engaging Spring, Md. She studied at Touro College in
20-year-old college student from Oak Park
Jerusalem this past year. As a freshman this
and as a fine an ambassador for Magen David
Unusual Opportunity
October at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan,
Adorn (MDA) as Israel's national emergency,
she will study biotechnology
Krohner's summer volunteer tour ultimate-
blood and rescue service could imagine.
"The Magen David Adorn volunteer
ly included many women in labor as well as
Krohner told her gripping story at the
program is truly an unbelievable learning
trauma patients from car accidents, faint-
44th annual dinner of the Dr. John J. Mames
experience,' Krohner told the dinner crowd at
ing, seizures and heart attacks. But because
Chapter of the American Friends of Magen
Adat Shalom. "The experience
she trained for service on a
David Adorn (AFMDA)-Michigan Region. The extended beyond that for me.
Mobile Intensive Care Unit
dinner, honoring local AFMDA advocates Dr.
And from the feedback I heard
stationed in Bet Shemesh,
Peter and Rachel Siegel, drew 260 supporters
from fellow volunteers who
she also learned to take
to Adat Shalom Synagogue, Farmington Hills.
felt similarly, it was extremely
part alongside paramedics
It was held on Sept. 11, which marked the
gratifying to do this work in
in CPR. She was one of the
10th anniversary of 9-11, the worst terrorist
Israel, lending support to the
lucky volunteers to par-
act ever on American soil. Dinner chaff Judith 'hard-working individuals of
ticipate in a successful CPR
Grant was assisted by Nathan Resnick and Dr.
Magen David Adorn and giving
outside of a hospital — a
Margo Woll. New York-based AFMDA CEO
to Israeli society
rare result. Working a mid-
Arnold Gerson flew in to address guests.
night shift, her ambulance
Getting Ready
The John J. Mames Chapter has raised $22
team was sent to the home
million for MDA for such basics as bulletproof Krohner's formative, ener-
of a 50-year-old uncon-
vests, paramedic scholarships and defibrilla-
gizing summer began with
scious woman. En route,
Shoshana Kr ohner
tors. It has donated 240 ambulances. A basic
training June 20-30 as a certi-
the team filled adrenaline
life support ambulance today costs $100,000
fied first responder for MDA.
syringes, prepared the
and a Mobile Intensive Care Unit is $125,000.
She and other volunteers were taught how to
monitor and defibrillator, and set protocol.
The chapter also has funded the Lillian L.
work aboard ambulances and use emergency
On arrival, the team, led by a paramedic
and Allan. L. Waller First Aid Station and the
medical equipment. They also learned Hebrew named Aron, took over from the basic life
Natalie and Manny Charach Medical Center,
terminology most likely to come up during
support ambulance team, which had started
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