A PRCS Medic confirmed that an Israeli health official working at Bet El District Coordinating Office (DCO) threatened to revoke his Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) accreditation and driver's license if he continued to provide emergency treatment to and/or transport sick or injured persons who hold Israeli identity cards. The threat came after the PRCS medics had administered emergency treatment and transferred a car accident victim to an Israeli hospital on the 13 August 2005.
On Saturday evening, 13 August 2005 a PRCS ambulance from the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) station in Al-Azaryia, Jerusalem was dispatched to the scene of a car accident in Abu Dis.
On arrival at the scene of the accident, PRCS medics immediately proceeded to a person lying on the ground. The injured person was showing visible signs of pain, hemorrhaging from the head and a broken leg. The medics stabilized the person and transferred him to the ambulance for transport to the nearest hospital. Upon the request of the accompanying relative, the injured person was transported to Hadassah Hirtsoufim. At the entrance of the hospital, the guard would not allow the ambulance to enter and called for a hospital ambulance to transfer the accident case. However, a hospital ambulance never arrived. Instead, a non medical vehicle was sent and the medics proceeded with the transfer and accompanied the injured person to the hospital emergency room. There, the hospital guard called the Bet El DCO and gave the phone to one of the medics. Speaking in Arabic, the person at Bet El told the medic that Magon David Adom, Israel's emergency services provider, is available to provide such services and that if he continued to assist Israeli ID card holders she would revoke his EMT accreditation and driver's license.
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