As soon as we see an injured individual we treat him. Later elaborating on his comments in a radio interview, Been said “I have no specific instructions on whom to treat first. Speaking on a morning talk show, Been said that MDA workers evaluated the situation at the scene of a terrorist attack and practiced a form of triage, to decide whom to treat first. In an interview last month, MDA director Eli Been said that his rescue workers were required to help anyone who was injured when terror attacks took place, including terrorists – and in fact, there were cases where they would be treated first. The IMA must immediately retract this decision.”Īlthough the policy is new for the IMA, it turns out that Israel’s largest rescue organization, Magen David Adom, has been conducting itself in this manner for some time. It shows the complete moral confusion and loss of priorities among certain people in this country. This is an inhuman decision, and clearly the people who made it are living in another world. The heads of the organization must resign their position immediately. Speaking Wednesday, Yisrael Beitenu chairman Avigdor Liberman said that the IMA’s position was “unbelievable. The IMA announcement has raised the ire of rightwing MKs. It’s not fair to add another responsibility to their already-crowded agenda.” Their job is to save lives, and they need to concentrate on that. It’s easy to make mistakes, especially in a mass terror attack, and we cannot expect a doctor to identify the individual they are treating. Tami Karni, who heads the ethics committee, said that the reason for the change was that “doctors are not judges, and by prioritizing victims over perpetrators, they would be in a position of deciding who was to blame and whom to ‘punish,’ via their decision of whom to treat first. In an interview with daily newspaper Yisrael Hayom, Dr. The announcement reflects a drastic shift in priorities previously, the IMA’s policy had been that Israeli victims should be treated before terrorists.
It must be noted that, according to halachah, priority must be given to the victim of a murderous attack and it is also morally wrong to accord preferential treatment to the perpetrator over the victim. That policy, the IMA’s ethics committee said, includes treating terrorists first, if they need more medical attention than their victims. In a controversial stance, the Israel Medical Association (IMA) announced that emergency medical personnel at the scene of a tragedy – such as a terrorist attack – need to treat individuals according to their levels of injury. ZAKA personnel at the scene of where two Israelis were killed and two others wounded in a stabbing attack at Beit Panorama in southern Tel Aviv, on Nov.
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