As a 16-year-old yeshiva student in Jerusalem, Eli Beer dreamed of being an EMT. He volunteered on an ambulance service, and one day received a call about a 7-year-old child choking on a hot dog. By the time the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, the child was dead. When Eli found out that a doctor had been just a block away, he realized that the emergency medical system was in desperate need of disruption.Soon after, he heard a call about an auto accident just one block away. Eli raced to the scene by foot.
\"An elderly man had blood gushing out of his neck,\" Eli tells Aish.com. \"I had no medical equipment, so I removed my kippah and used it to apply pressure to stop the bleeding. I later found out the man was taking blood thinners and would have been dead in two minutes. The ambulance only arrived 15 minutes later. I had saved a life!” At that moment, Eli knew his life mission: to reduce the wait-time for emergency medical care. |
