Patient Returns to Hadassah Medical Center With Gift of Gratitude of 100,000 Shekels
19-Jul-2010
Dr. Snunit Shoham, a patient with a rare, life-threatening infection in her face, returned to the Hadassah Medical Center to thank the team of physicians who saved her and to present a check of 100,000 shekels to Hadassah. "You were there for us as a supporter when we had nowhere to go and no chance to come out of a real disaster," said her husband, Yaacov Shoham, to Professor Allon E. Moses, Chairman of the Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, who orchestrated his wife’s complicated treatment regimen.
Dr. Shoham, a lecturer in information sciences at Israel’s Bar Ilan University, had been admitted to Hadassah’s emergency room last September with a severe internal infection inside the right part of her face. The infection was so acute that it was moving towards her brain and threatening her life. Experts from Hadassah’s departments of Maxillofacial Surgery, Ear, Nose, and Throat, and Infectious Diseases were called in. It was immediately obvious that she would require several operations from different medical specialists.
When Snunit was discharged after a two-month hospitalization, she was completely recovered, able to return to her work, four children, and eight grandchildren.
