Two new mothers, two children hospitalized at Hadassah with critical cases of COVID

• Author: MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
• Published date: 24 September 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Due to the serious nature of their conditions, the mothers were forced to deliver their babies early, at weeks 28 and 27 respectively.

The 20-year-old is intubated in critical condition. The 27-year-old is in serious condition and is receiving respiratory assistance.

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Both babies, born so long before their due dates, are being treated in the hospital's pre-term neonatal intensive care unit.

"The next few weeks will be critical," a spokesperson for the hospital told The Jerusalem Post.

Also at Hadassah, two young children ages six months and two years are in serious condition with the virus. Both of them suffer from severe underlying medical conditions.

In total, the hospital is treating 50 COVID-19 patients in its two coronavirus internal medicine wards, two coronavirus intensive care units, and its coronavirus pediatric intensive care unit. Some 20 of the patients are ventilated in critical condition, including two 40-year-olds who are hooked up to heart-lung ECMO machines.

The report of the patients, which was shared by the hospital shortly before Shabbat, comes on a day that the Health...