Tag Archive for Syrian patients

Israeli medical students ‘adopt’ young wounded Syrian boy

A Syrian boy who lost a leg while shepherding sheep was sent to Israel for treatment, where he’s captured the hearts of 6 medical students that are doing their best to make him feel loved & cared for.

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After surgery in Israel, Syrian youth fitted with a prosthetic leg

After the 13 yr-old Syrian boy received extensive medical treatment and now a prosthetic leg, the boy & his mother are preparing to return home to Syria.

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In Pioneering Procedure Israeli Doctors Implant Injured Syrian Man With Titanium Jaw

A 23 yr-old Syrian gunshot victim, with a completely destroyed lower jaw, is sent to Israeli hospital where pioneering jaw implant allows him to once again talk & eat.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

A 23-year-old Syrian citizen has undergone a pioneering jaw implant made from titanium – one of the most precious metals on Earth – after suffering a bullet wound in his country’s civil war that completely destroyed his lower jaw.

Doctors at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center treat a Syrian patient. – Photo: RAMBAM HOSPITAL SPOKESMAN

Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center announced the successful operation using the customized artificial jawbone created on a 3D printer. Continue Reading »

Another 3 Syrian children in serious condition are treated in Israeli hospital

Three children hurt from exploding shell while playing were  sent to Ziv Medical Center in Safed for treatment.

Since the beginning of the Syrian war, Ziv hospital has treated 376 Syrian patients.

By Ahiya Raved

 

Three Syrian children wounded in the battles raging in their war-torn country were brought to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed on Saturday night to receive medical treatment. They were treated at the trauma unit and were expected to undergo surgery when their condition stabilizes.

A wounded Syrian boy being treated at Ziv Medical Center (Photo: Courtesy)

A wounded Syrian boy being treated at Ziv Medical Center – Photo: Courtesy

Two of the children were seriously wounded. Continue Reading »

Syria’s ‘Nelson Mandela’ praises Israel for treating his wounded countrymen

 

Prominent Syrian oppositionist, Dr. Kamal al-Labwani, “Israel treats wounded Syrians and saves their lives while Assad continues to massacre his people. All of Syria sees this and asks: Who is the real enemy?”, he said while visiting Syrian patients at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, Israel.

By Danny Brenner

 

“Israel treats wounded Syrians and saves their lives while [Syrian President Bashar] Assad continues to massacre his people,” said Dr. Kamal al-Labwani, a prominent member of the Syrian opposition movement.

“All of Syria sees this and asks: Who is the real enemy?” Labwani said on Thursday while visiting Syrian patients at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, in northern Israel.

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Syrian kids traveled by donkey to receive medical aid from Israel

After a 12-year-old boy lost his vision & sustained serious wounds to his arms & legs during fighting near Damascus, his older brother placed him on a donkey and took him to an IDF post on Syria’s border.

By Ahiya Raved,

 

A 12-year-old Syrian boy was brought to the Ziv Medical Center in Safed for medical treatment over the weekend after he was severely wounded near Damascus. This was not the first time a wounded Syrian arrived in an Israel hospital for treatment – but no patient has ever crossed the border in this fashion.

The wounded Syrian boy. Arrived at an IDF post near Israel-Syria border riding a donkey (Photo: Courtesy of Ziv Hospital)

The boy told the hospital staff that he had been taken by his brother to the Israeli border near the Syrian slopes of the Hermon, on the back of a donkey.”

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Injured Syrians in Israel call on the IDF to bomb Syria

Ziv Medical Center in northern Israel is currently treating 16 Syrian patients who call Hezbollah ‘Satan’s organization’ and express their gratitude for the treatment they are given.

By Hassan Shaalan

 

“I’ve always thought of Israel as an enemy state that is not willing to help us. My case changed my thinking entirely. Israel is a good country that saves our lives, while the Syrian regime murders its citizens,” said one of the Syrian patients currently treated at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed.

Of the 16 Syrian patients in the Israeli hospital, three are in serious condition. Among them are children and rebels who fought against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s army. Continue Reading »