Israel Repurposes Public Phones Into Lifesaving Defibrillator Stations
Israel’s public phone booths are being converted into lifesaving public access defibrillator stations, as part of a new national collaboration between the country’s main phone company and its ambulance service.
This is the first time such an endeavor of converting redundant public phone booths into lifesaving devices has been done on a national level, according to Magen David Adom emergency services.
The concept of repurposing phone booths exists elsewhere in the world. There are also a few cities that have changed public phone booths into homes for public access defibrillators as we’re doing. But no one has done so on a national level. We’ve taken the idea up a level and thanks to Israel’s compact size and leading technology capabilities, this lifesaving project will stretch across the country, from Dan to Eilat, and be connected to the national emergency services, Magen David Adom (MDA),” the MDA project leader of the MDA-Bezeq Israel Telecom collaboration, who requested anonymity due to his military ties, tells NoCamels.
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