Jerusalem – Page 6 – Hadassah UK

5 Aug

Thanks to Hadassah Physicians, Toddler with Blocked Oesophagus now Enjoys Solid Food

Two-and-a-half-year-old Yanki Leib Shetland had never eaten a carrot or a potato chip. He was subsisting on baby formula, chocolate milk, and porridge. It was no wonder he was so small and underdeveloped. When his desperate parents brought Yanki to the Paediatric Gastroenterology department at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem, he managed to surprise even the […]

24 Jul

Hadassah Doctors Give a Gazan Patient with an Incurable Skin Disease a “Normal Life”

Even the experienced hand surgeons at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem had never seen such a shocking development: their patient’s hands, with encrusted, wood-like growths, looked as if they had metamorphosed into trees. Hadassah Senior Hand and Microvascular Surgeon Dr. Michael Chernofsky first met 42-year-old Mohammed Taluli from Gaza when Mr. Taluli came in to his […]

4 Jul

“Just Clownin’ Around!” Medical Clown at Hadassah Hospital heals with happiness

When David ‘Dush’ Barashi walks up to you in the hallway, he comes across as animated, a cartoon figure come to life. You feel like you’re meeting a Disney character. Perhaps from “Aladdin” or “Pirates of the Caribbean.” His mop of salt and pepper hair and twistable mustache looks like it spawned from the barbershop […]

26 Jun

Rare disease creates bond between Israeli and Palestinian patients

They met in the Paediatrics Department at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus, two couples whose children suffer from a rare disease. One couple from an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, and one couple from Gaza, both sharing the same concern for their tiny loved ones who are hospitalised for treatment and follow-up at a Hadassah Paediatric gastroenterology […]

7 Nov

Guest Blog; Aly’s Hadassah Blog

Guest Blog: Aly’s Story- My name is Aly, and I’m proud and honoured to have been asked to write a blog for the Hadassah UK website. I hope that my regular updates can help to give you an insight into what truly makes the Hadassah Hospital tick . . . the building, the patients and […]

11 Feb

Coexistence at Hadassah: Reflections of an Arab Social Worker in Israel

I am a social worker in the Paediatric Surgical Department and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem, and I teach the students at the Hebrew University School of Social Work. I am proud that we provide healthcare services for all patients, whether they are from West Jerusalem, East Jerusalem, the settlements, […]

11 Jan

Moving into the Future: Hadassah Dedicates New OR Complex

The long-awaited operating room complex for the Hadassah Medical Centre’s Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower was dedicated on January 10th. Built to allow Hadassah’s high-level surgical teams to carry out complicated surgeries under optimal conditions, with a level of technology used by the world’s top-tier hospitals, the complex took eight years to complete at a […]

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Thanks to Hadassah Physicians, Toddler with Blocked Oesophagus now Enjoys Solid Food

Hadassah Doctors Give a Gazan Patient with an Incurable Skin Disease a “Normal Life”

“Just Clownin’ Around!” Medical Clown at Hadassah Hospital heals with happiness

Rare disease creates bond between Israeli and Palestinian patients

Guest Blog; Aly’s Hadassah Blog

Coexistence at Hadassah: Reflections of an Arab Social Worker in Israel

Moving into the Future: Hadassah Dedicates New OR Complex

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