Hadassah’s Air Ambulance service, coordinated by Prof. David Linton, Director of Hadassah’s Internal Intensive Care Unit as well as a pilot, brought the woman and her husband to Hadassah. Following two days of examining the patient, searching the medical literature (finding only one similar case), and discussing the options, Hadassah specialists in the fields of obstetrics, vascular surgery, general surgery, interventional radiology, and imaging, decided they could safely deliver the babies. 

Two healthy infants are now safe and doing well in Hadassah’s Neonatology Department on Mount Scopus.

Hadassah’s Air Ambulance service brings patients to Hadassah regularly in response to requests from colleagues in various countries who are unable to treat them.

 

Prof. Neri Laufer, head of Hadassah’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, with the babies’ parents.

The same day that the pregnant woman was brought to Hadassah, two other critically ill Cypriots were flown in, both on their own air ambulance, escorted by a Hadassah physician and Hadassah nurse. One was a woman with a severe heart disease, who had been misdiagnosed earlier and experienced near fatal complications. The second was a man with throat cancer. Both are now recovering well thanks to Hadassah’s medical intervention.

The excited father of the twin babies told The Jerusalem Post that the saving of his wife and daughters by Hadassah was a "miracle.” When the babies are old enough, he said, he wants to bring them to visit the doctors and nurses “who were perfect.”