Showing posts with label Wolfson Medical Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wolfson Medical Center. Show all posts

Saturday, April 8, 2017

Israeli Hospitals Treat Thousands of Arabs. Where's the Media Coverage? - Israel Today

Israeli Hospitals Treat Thousands of Arabs. Where's the Media Coverage?

Friday, April 07, 2017 |  Israel Today Staff
No further evidence is necessary of the mainstream media’s anti-Israel bias than it’s total lack of coverage of the fact that Israeli hospitals routinely treat Arab patients from all over the Middle East.
Instead, the media paints Israel as a heartless and bigoted society that only wishes ill on its Arab foes.
i24NEWS showed in a recent report what’s going on at just one Israeli hospital, and it’s not at all what one would expect from listening to the likes of CNN and the BBC.
In cooperation with the Israeli NGO “Save a Child’s Heart,” Wolfson Medical Center in the central Israel town of Holon has treated thousands of Arabs in recent years.
Most of the patients have been Palestinian Arab children in need of life-saving surgery, which is fully covered by “Save a Child’s Heart” and the Israeli taxpayers.
Many other patients have come from war-torn Iraq. Others have from from as far away as Afghanistan.
In one instance, a princess from the emirate of Bahrain insisted on having critical surgery in Israel, insisting that only in the Jewish state would she receive the treatment needed to save her life.
Isn’t that curious? After all, Israel’s antagonists suggest that an Arab who falls into the Jewish state’s hands is more likely than not to lose his life. They say Israel is a nation of “child-killers.”
But here these Israelis are, not killing, but saving the lives of thousands of Arab children.
And the media is silent.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Israeli Doctors Save 4000th Foreign Child's Heart - Yossi Aloni ISRAEL TODAY

Israeli Doctors Save 4000th Foreign Child's Heart

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 |  Yossi Aloni  ISRAEL TODAY
Sanusey lives with his family in a small town south of the capital of Gambia, the smallest country on the African continent. At the age of three months, doctors diagnosed him with a severe heart defect. After three years of regular trips to the local hospital, doctors there began searching for expertise from abroad to save Sanusey’s life. They found that expertise in Israel.
Sanusey arrived in Israel last month along with three other children from the Islamic Republic of Gambia to undergo life-saving heart surgery courtesy of the Israeli NGO Save a Child’s Heart. The British Jewish Federation in cooperation with Israeli Ambassador to Senegal Paul Hirshon, who is responsible for relations with Gambia, connected the children and their families with this wonderful organization.
Four-year-old Sanusey marked a milestone for Save a Child’s Heart, being the 4,000th child that the organization has connected with Israeli doctors for successful life-saving heart surgery. Many of those children have come from Africa and the Arab Middle East.
Given the complicated nature of Sanusey’s condition, his treatment was at times harrowing for both doctors and the little boy’s family.
After arriving at Ben Gurion Airport with his big sister, Panda, Sanusey was taken to Wolfson Medical Center in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon for preliminary tests. Shortly after, his condition deteriorated severely. Within minutes, the medical staff stabilized little Sanusey and rushed him into emergency surgery, where Dr. Lior Sasson and his operating staff worked for hours to save the boy’s life.
Panda was left to sit, cry and pray for her brother. Those prayers were answered, and just three days after surgery, Sanusey was sitting up in bed and smiling. Today, he is recovering with other children from around the world at the Save a Child’s Heart center in Holon.
A further three children from Gambia recently arrived in Israel for heart surgery, and Ambassador Hirshon has arranged for a number of doctors from the African nation to visit Israel and gain the knowhow to provide more advanced care at home.
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