Israeli emergency medicine in critical condition

The laws governing emergency and first-aid services in Israel have not been updated in 30 years, a report has revealed.

The regime's Tadmor Committee spent more than two years examining the legal framework and the field operations of emergency medical services in Israel, including Magen David Adom, United Hatzalah and volunteer organizations.

The committee's report found a "worrisome regulatory and legal vacuum" and described a "regulatory lacuna."

 The report found that there is no licensing or inspection body overseeing the certification of paramedics and first-aid administrators, and there are many organizations offering certification in these professions as they see fit.

It also wrote that because of the Health Ministry's lack of a supervising body, authority had been delegated to private bodies "without clear guidelines."