Corona online: Automatic response on ‘My MDA App’

As a open service, Magen David Adom on Thursday launched a digital petition within a “My MDA” app. By responding a questionnaire, each citizen can know what a scold discipline are for him, and how he should act and control himself per a emanate of a coronavirus.

The computerized petition will ask questions such as: Did we stay abroad and in what country? or do we have heat or any other symptoms? Depending on a answers, a app automatically leads a tourist to a MDA 101 Emergency Call Center, or alternatively, to continue his routine.

“In a final few days, we perceived tens of thousands of inquiries each day from adults seeking about a coronavirus. We have mapped out a questions that regard a public, and combined a extensive QA bank. The user enters a app, and answers a structured questions directed during diagnosing either he is during risk of apropos putrescent with coronavirus or not,” Ido Rosenblat, MDA’s communications dialect manager, explains. “According to a user’s answers, instructions will be given in a app on how to continue forward, and compulsory treatment.”

Since final night and until Thursday evening, some-more than 25,000 calls have been perceived during MDA’s 101 Emergency Call Center, compared to about 5,500 perceived during a slight day. This is a poignant increase, with many calls being perceived from adults seeking sum about a coronavirus epidemic.

MDA Director General Eli Bin said, “MDA EMTs and paramedics continue to take samples from patients who are quarantined, and have reported symptoms such as fever, cough and crispness of breath, and in suitability with a district physician’s decision, are compulsory by a Department of Health to have a representation taken to be tested. We titillate a open to use a app and acquire a initial information they need. This will assistance to make a information simply and fast accessible, and also to soothe a weight during a Dispatch Center, that is compulsory in sequence to continue slight life-saving activities.”

MDA emphasizes that in cases where there are no earthy symptoms, ubiquitous sum and discipline per a aurora can also be performed during a Ministry of Health website, a Health Ministry hotline during *5400 or a HMO hotlines, and now – also in a “My MDA” app.