Tragedy at Hadassah: A baby born to a corona patient dies at the age of two days

Tragedy at Hadassah: A baby born to a mother with a corona in an emergency caesarean section last week, died two days after giving birth last Saturday at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem.

According to the hospital, the mother, who was in her ninth month of pregnancy, was battling a severe case of the corona virus. Before arriving at the emergency room she called the hospital and reported that she did not feel any fetal movements for 24 hours. The hospital said that “she was delayed for several hours from the time she called the center until she arrived at the hospital.”

Upon admission to Hadassah’s corona unit, she met a midwife and was monitored, an obstetrician was called and after performing an ultrasound that confirmed the absence of fetal movements she was transferred to emergency caesarean section where the baby was born.

“The medical experts did their best to help in this complex and difficult situation,” the hospital said in a statement, adding that he performed CPR on the baby and that he was hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit in a very serious condition until he died. Hadassah is investigating the case and reported it to the Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, a newborn baby is struggling for his life at Schneider Children’s Medical Center after being born on Friday night in an emergency caesarean section. The mother, 33-year-old Rachel, is also fighting for her life in the coronary intensive care unit at Beilinson Hospital. She was 31 weeks pregnant at birth and the baby was born weighing only 199 grams.

Prof Arnon Wiesnitzer, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Beilinson, said the current wave of the virus is much more severe than previous waves and that many younger people have been hospitalized in the corona unit. “We have dealt with about 150 pregnant women from March to now,” the professor said. “This is the hardest wave so far.”