A one-year-old baby girl from Acre dies after being forgotten in a vehicle, hospital officials and medics say.
Magen David Adom paramedics try to resuscitate the baby as she was extracted from the vehicle and brought to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya by ambulance.
Pediatric emergency department director Dr. Itamar Munchak says that the girl was in critical condition, not breathing and lacking a pulse, when she arrived. Several and varied attempts by medical staff to revive her were unsuccessful, leading them to declare her dead.
Munchak warns the public to never leave a child in a car, especially during the summer months when the temperature inside a vehicle can reach 70 degrees Celsius (158 Fahrenheit)
According to the Beterem – Keeping Kids Safe organization, between 2010-2020, 34 fatalities in Israel were attributed to babies and children being left unattended in parked and locked cars.
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