The New Helmsley Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Hadassah
This year Hadassah UK is supporting the Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit at Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem, which is the only effective therapy for many immune system disorders and blood cancers requiring stem cell transplants.
Many of these diseases are hereditary and occur more frequently in Israel due to the high rate of consanguineous marriage (between relatives) in many communities – Arab, Bedouin and Jewish.
Hadassah is a global referral centre for bone marrow transplants for non-malignant diseases and bone marrow failures. For these patients, transplantation is the only option and their only chance at survival. Hadassah is the only facility in the greater Jerusalem area that offers complex oncology and bone marrow transplant treatments for children from all over Israel as well as from abroad.
Hadassah UK is sponsoring the creation of the new Helmsley Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit at Hadassah; a dedicated, spacious new unit complete with six patient isolation rooms, allowing for total isolation as required following bone marrow transplantation.
The unit features a child-friendly environment especially decorated to calm and reassure – and most importantly, its outstanding team specialises in providing children with the highest standard of compassionate care.
Please support our Passover appeal to help these vulnerable citizens to receive the life-saving treatment they so urgently need.
Life-saving research at Hadassah
Hadassah researchers have discovered the reason behind recurrent life-threatening infections in infants that lead to bone marrow failure. Here are some stories of the vulnerable young patients we have saved!
A young Palestinian girl with a serious blood disorder, Thalassemia major, received a bone marrow transplantation at Hadassah and was cured of this debilitating disease.
During the first Covid-19 lockdown, Hadassah located a bone marrow donor from Germany urgently needed to save the life of a six-month-old baby boy in Jerusalem.
The baby has a deadly disease called Juvenile Osteoporosis, where the bones become solidified, causing blindness and deafness.
15 Children from the Northern Russian Republic of Chuvash, travelled to Hadassah for treatment and were cured from a rare fatal ‘’marble bone disease.’’
                     ”YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A DOCTOR TO SAVE LIVES”
