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An India Today special broadcast from Tel Aviv highlights the ground reality of the ongoing conflict in West Asia, focusing on the safety of Indian workers and Israel's advanced emergency medical response. Amid sounding sirens, residents and workers are seen swiftly moving into public shelters.
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00:12Hello and welcome to this special broadcast from the ground zero of an ongoing conflict
00:17in West Asia. I am Pranayam Bhai Bhai and I have been covering this conflict from Israel
00:22for past 20 days. In next 30 minutes we are going to tell you the stark reality of modern day
00:28conflict where bunkers have become part of life. These concrete walls and iron dome above have saved
00:36many lives in Israel and they have become part of life in Israel. Many people lived there. People
00:43bonded in these shelters. People taught their children in these these shelters and these bunkers
00:50have become new normal for Israel.
01:09In Israel, it is about 8 o'clock in the evening and in this time people are going to die
01:14out of the
01:15house. But now there is an alarm. All these things are happening in such a time when the
01:20In 5 days, we are talking about diplomatic solutions for 5 days and people are going to go to the
01:27shelter in the future.
01:29We are going to go to the shelter where everyone is reaching.
01:34This is the alarm.
01:37Everyone says that they reach the shelter.
01:41You can see the people here.
01:44This is the shelter here.
01:46There are some shelter here.
01:49There are some elements from the solentity.
01:53There are some elements from the ground.
01:55There are instructions in the shelter.
01:59There are public shelters and common shelters.
02:02These are where there are shelter.
02:06This is an extended protocol.
02:09These are the common people who have come to work here.
02:15The shelter is coming from the shelter.
02:20People believe that they are coming from the shelter.
02:25This way, and this way, you can get the shelter.
02:29This shelter is coming from the shelter.
02:32And then, on the other level, people are going to access you.
02:38This alert is the same as moving from the command to the mobile camera.
02:43The message is the same as saying that you can go out there.
02:48So then, listen, the siren is ringing.
02:52With the siren with the sound of the siren, this alert is that the missiles can come.
03:00Or from Lebanon, from Iran or from any other side,
03:03the incoming projectiles, this is the warning.
03:07And this alert is coming.
03:16We are in Tel Aviv.
03:18We are in Tel Aviv.
03:19There are many bharatians here.
03:22They are working in different sectors.
03:26And I wanted to know this here.
03:28I wanted to know that there are many things on social media.
03:32There are many things that are happening.
03:32There are some things that are happening here.
03:34They are saying that there are some concerns about the bunkers.
03:39There are many people who are commenting on this.
03:41So, we are asking them.
03:43Let's check a reality.
03:44Is this something that is?
03:46Please tell us.
03:47No, there is nothing here.
03:49What is your name?
03:49My name is Roshan.
03:51I am from Rajasthan.
03:52My house is from Jepore.
03:54So, I am with Jepore.
03:55I will tell you, I am here.
03:56There is no problem here.
03:57The people who are having this love here,
03:59are not in any country.
04:01As we are being brought to the bunkers,
04:03we can ask them to go inside and say,
04:05you are coming to the outside.
04:07You are coming to the outside.
04:08There are no problems here.
04:08I am living here.
04:09For two years, the siren is coming to us.
04:12We are bringing in the back.
04:12We are bringing in the back.
04:13First we are providing safety.
04:14Then we are bringing in the back.
04:16We are bringing in the back.
04:38I love Israel.
04:40You are working abroad. What is happening in that time?
04:43You are traveling different. You are working on different sides.
04:46Our sides are going to keep the first bomb shelter.
04:50After that, the side has approval for you to do it.
04:53If there is no safety, the government will not do it.
04:58This is in any city.
04:59No, no, no.
05:02Always.
05:04Before we start the bomb secretary,
05:08we will start the bomb shelter.
05:11After that, we will start the bomb shelter.
05:14We will start the bomb shelter.
05:15When the bomb shelter is opened,
05:19there is nothing to do with the bomb shelter.
05:24We will start the bomb shelter.
05:25Then we will get the permit to start the bomb shelter.
05:28These people are all from Bhairat.
05:31Some from Rajasthan, from Gujarat, from Maharashtra.
05:50We will start the bomb shelter.
05:54We will start the bomb shelter.
05:57These people will come from the bomb shelter.
06:04They will come from the bomb shelter.
06:06In fact, there is no need to go to the shelter and the Sourakshit is going to go to the
06:10shelter.
06:36Emergency response vehicles and in fact, not only the buses and cars and specialised ambulances, they also have the medical
06:43mopeds or medical motorbikes because based on the medical emergency, they send those kind of vehicles for the medical response.
06:52This is one of the largest lifesaver mechanism Israel is having and this national center emergency response center where I
07:00am currently is the nerve center where the fight for saving every life starts with a phone call or a
07:07message or even an alarm or an alert which is sounded by the home front command and these are the
07:13vehicles.
07:14And let me show you this special intensive care unit. This is a specialised bus turned into an intensive care
07:20unit and as you can see here, this is called Wheels of Hope.
07:25It's a mobile intensive care bus, Megan David Adom and you can see that what exactly is the mechanism with
07:32which these lifesaver buses are sent for the emergency response at any site where the missile hit is reported.
07:39And you can see that this bus reaches to a place and this is also used for shifting the critical
07:46patients from one place to another place and this is how the patients are shifted on this stretcher or this
07:54bed and there is a lift inside and you can see this is how it functions.
07:59The patients are lifted up and there is an entire medical intensive care unit inside this bus and it can,
08:11this one bus can save lives of critically injured critical patients around seven of them and this is how it
08:19functions.
08:20You can see and let me also show you from inside this medical intensive care unit that bed is coming
08:28up through this lift and this entire bus is a mobile intensive care unit and this every terminal this every
08:37bed is equipped with all those life saving devices life saving equipments.
08:42You can see here that the ECG monitors are here that the ECG monitors are here, the oxygen terminals are
08:47also here and you can see that all these beds are equipped and based on the mission profile of any
08:54emergency response, people like him are serving, they are working.
09:00And in fact, every unit, every unit every bed and in fact every unit.
09:03and every unit every bed is equipped with every critically important and critically significant equipment and material to save any
09:12life and let me also show you that not only these beds and these emergency response mechanisms are there but
09:18life saver drugs are also stored for the patient and for the emergency response.
09:22So all these, you know, all these, these injections are stored here, which are required for any kind of emergency
09:31response.
09:31This is how they monitor every call here.
09:35The map of Israel is here.
09:37And this is the central part of Israel.
09:39And in fact, every part of Israel, be it Haifa or be it Eilat or be it Tel Aviv,
09:45every place is almost like one or one and a half hour distance.
09:49And in fact, they are very close to airport as well.
09:52Based on the profile of any medical emergency, there seems to the, to the, to the site.
10:00And as you can see behind me that, you know, on the map, there are active sites, there are active
10:05calls.
10:06And all those red dots on this, this map of Israel, you can see that, you know, these are the,
10:12the medical emergencies.
10:13So whenever there is a medical emergency, you know, there's a red pin pops up on this map.
10:18And the team coordinates that, they send their, their responders to that place.
10:24And in fact, they have the nodal centers as well.
10:26Currently, I am in the national command center.
10:28And in fact, from here, the calls are dispatched to the local nerve centers or local nodal centers.
10:34And from there, they respond.
10:36And in fact, we have been told that three minutes is the minimum, three minutes is the maximum time.
10:41In fact, you know, at times, you know, within a few seconds, like two seconds, three seconds, they respond to
10:46those calls.
10:47And the medical teams are, you know, alerted.
10:50And in fact, they also use artificial intelligence for the, for the sake of coordination, for the sake of profiling.
10:57And in fact, they work in coordination with Israeli defense forces as well.
11:01They work in coordination with home front command.
11:04And in fact, cluster ammunition has, has posed a new challenge, a bigger challenge for Israel.
11:09And MDA has also calibrated its response time based on those, you know, cluster ammunition profiles, their impact radius.
11:17And, and this is how they try and coordinate and respond.
11:23Reep, tell us something about this thing.
11:25And can you show us this command center as well?
11:27Sure.
11:27So this is our national dispatch command center.
11:31And here we oversee all of the operations we have throughout the whole country of Israel.
11:36So we have many different dispatch centers and the national one here as well.
11:40In addition, we also operate the HEMS, our helicopter EMS as well.
11:44And we also coordinate with home front command here as well.
11:47With special technology, AI technology, we can see the different scenes and we can predict missile strikes even before the,
11:56the people leave their safe room.
11:58And while they're still in the safe room, they can already see and understand that there's a missile that hit
12:03and they'll already see magnitude of the teams on scene.
12:05So you'll leave your safe room and we'll already be on scene treating.
12:08Yes.
12:09So that's how fast it is because we have the AI that predicts and understands the trajectory of the missiles.
12:15And then we can understand if there's a missile strike, even before you understand, you call us on the one
12:19-on-one dispatch.
12:20Can you show us?
12:21Sure.
12:21Let's go ahead.
12:22Sure.
12:22In this dispatch here, we have many different features.
12:26We have the National Dispatch here and we also have the First Response Dispatch on the side.
12:32In addition to the First Response Dispatch on my side here, we have also the Regional Dispatch here for Ayalon
12:38and Negev.
12:39So that takes care of all the operations, all the calls being received and everything in between that comes in
12:45through our dispatch here.
12:46Behind you over there in front of me, you can stay on here.
12:49We see the National Dispatch that oversees every single region.
12:54Their response times, their teams, their vehicles, their equipment, everything that happens is all being maintained from over there.
13:01And as I said here, also First Response Dispatch as well.
13:04So all of the First Response vehicles, almost 1,000 vehicles, are all off-shift, at home, at work, on
13:11vacation.
13:12They have a McInda vehicle with them and they'll be sent to different scenes and different locations, even though they're
13:19not even on shift.
13:20And that way we can shorten our response time even to less than four minutes.
13:25How do you manage and have you reduced the emergency response time at the time of this conflict, this war?
13:31Definitely.
13:32So we have to maintain and reduce response times during times of conflict and times of war.
13:37And the way we do that is we have levels of preparedness, right?
13:39So if we have a holiday, which you know is more susceptible for calls, or wartime, which is very susceptible
13:44for calls, we maintain the fleet at different numbers.
13:48So day-to-day can be 20%, and now we're at 100%.
13:51That means all 3,000, almost 3,000 vehicles of McInda Vida Dome need to be manned and ready for
13:56action 24-7.
13:58So that means even me now, I'm at work now.
14:00When I finish my shift today, I'll go home in a vehicle that's McInda Vida Dome.
14:04It's a first response vehicle.
14:05And even if something happens, let's say a missile strike happens next to my house, I'll be ready to answer
14:09and get on scene as fast as possible.
14:11And that way we can reduce our response times to three minutes for a first response vehicle or ambulance.
14:17And within seven minutes, we have the shift ambulance, the one that's going to be transporting the patient.
14:21Just because I have an ambulance doesn't mean I'm going to transport the patient, right?
14:24I'm at home, I'm sleeping, I'm on shift, I won't transport.
14:28Maybe I will, but I don't have to.
14:30And then the ambulance is coming that will transport the patient from the shift.
14:33Based on the profile of that medical emergency, the teams are dispatched.
14:38And we have seen on ground as well that after the missile impact, we have seen that how these are,
14:43they are the first responder.
14:44They are the one who reach first.
14:46They are the one whose volunteers extricate people from those impact site.
14:51And in fact, the ambulances are the first one to reach at that spot.
14:55And also, they work in tandem coordination with the IDF, Israeli Defense Forces, as well as the Homefront Command.
15:02And this is the place where the things are monitored and they also monitor the new sites.
15:10So, thank you for listening.
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