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4-Aug-2009
Hannah Shabathai, Vice President-Geneva for Hadassah Switzerland, was honored for her 39 years of service with the World Health Organization (WHO) upon retiring last month.
4-Aug-2009
Hadassah Mexico, following a successful seminar on First Aid, decided to offer First Aid Kits to donors who contribute 1,000 pesos toward the renovation of the Pediatric Department at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus.
4-Aug-2009
Three generations of the Strage family from the United Kingdom and the United States commemorated Alberta and Henry Strage’s 50th wedding anniversary with a summer trip to Israel and a gift to the Hadassah Medical Center’s Charlotte R. Bloomberg Mother and Child Center.
4-Aug-2009
Hadassah France sponsored a concert this past June featuring the renowned Indian dancer/composer, Raghunath Manet, at the Salle Gaveau in Paris. Opening the evening with a talk about the Hadassah Medical Center, Hadassah France President Dr. Sydney Ohana brought Hadassah into the consciousness of the 700 people who attended.
4-Aug-2009
Celebrating the Bar Mitzvah of Mijael Dachner with a trip to Israel, the Marcushamer/Dachner family from Monterey, Mexico chose to mark the occasion with a gift to the Hadassah Medical Center to help children with cancer.
4-Aug-2009
Happy to be transmitting the legacy of her love for Hadassah to her grandchildren, Berta Bekhor brought her family to see the Hadassah Medical Center this past July.
4-Aug-2009
Hadassah Cuba sponsored a program in June featuring Israel’s outreach work to enhance Africa’s health care; a historical look at 200 years of Tel Aviv; and an update on research breakthroughs and cutting-edge care at the Hadassah Medical Center. With the aid of the unit’s Scientific Committee, they also sponsored a survey in coordination with a local women’s organization to educate the public about prevention of breast cancer.
4-Aug-2009
A cancer patient expected to live only a few days when his doctors discovered a tumor blocking a pulmonary artery was operated on successfully by a team of Israeli and American surgeons at Hadassah Hospital-Ein Kerem and given a new lease on life.
4-Aug-2009
One Friday morning, a mother of five suddenly experienced a thunderous headache and collapsed. She had a potentially fatal aneurysm, a weakness in a wall of an artery, but thanks to Hadassah’s cutting-edge endovascular catheterization, she is alive and on the road to recovery.
4-Aug-2009
Wearing super-sized saddle shoes and a Rudolf-red nose, Cris, the French-born clown, cheers up Hadassah’s pediatric patients and helps them cope with chemotherapy and countless blood tests. He dreamed of creating a tricycle made with an IV (intravenous) pole that would feature the familiar hospital clown. “That way,” he explains, “we clowns can leave a little of ourselves in the ward after we go home.”