Tag Health Ministry

5 May

Everything You Need to Know About the Hepatitis Outbreak Among Children

Is the number of cases in Israel unusually high, what are the symptoms of the disease and is it linked to the coronavirus? Haaretz explains The Health Ministry said that it is looking into 12 cases of children hospitalised in recent months with severe hepatitis. The investigation had been recommended by the World Health Organisation […]

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7 Dec

No Severe Omicron Cases Among Vaccinated Patients, Top Israeli Expert Says

After Omicron was detected in Israel, experts add that it will be two weeks before there is credible data on the variant’s vaccine resistance. Health minister says Israel has been preparing for the arrival of a new variant for some time. Prof. Dror Mevorach, Head of the Coronavirus Department at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, said […]

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15 Jul

COVID-19: HAS ISRAEL DONE ENOUGH TO HALT A DELTA VARIANT OUTBREAK?

Are the minimal restrictions passed by the coronavirus cabinet to stop the spread of the Delta variant outbreak risky or responsible? Health officials seem divided. “These are good decisions and the right way to deal with the current situation,” said Prof. Dror Mevorach, a senior physician from Hadassah-University Medical Centre. “I believe we should have […]

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16 Feb

Hadassah Vaccinates over 90% of its Staff

There are very pleasing statistics coming from Hadassah Medical Centre as the vaccination campaign appears to be working, according to data released last Thursday by Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Segal has been tracking virus trends since the start of the pandemic: He wrote on Twitter that since the […]

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27 Jan

Hadassah Hospital Opens Israel’s First Paediatric ICU for COVID-19 Patients

Jerusalem sees surge of ‘very sick’ children in recent weeks; 4 of 8 available beds at new unit already filled, including a 10-day-old baby  Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem has opened the country’s first paediatric intensive care unit specifically designed for coronavirus patients after thousands of children have been diagnosed with COVID-19 over the past […]

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10 Jun

Coronavirus rebel Zeev Rotstein’s battle against the bureaucrats

Article by MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN, YAAKOV KATZ  Published in the Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2020  “We are not enemies, I just have a different opinion,” the Hadassah Hospital chief said. A few weeks after the novel coronavirus broke out in Israel in late February, Prof. Zeev Rotstein, the powerful head of Hadassah-University Medical Centre, sent a letter […]

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