The Israel Electric Corporation’s workers’ committee – northern district, in arrangement with the Chairperson of the Friends of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Moshe Morag, has donated NIS 50,000 to establish a new Intensive Coronary Care Unit at the medical center

For the first time, doctors at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center Cardiac Division carried out pulmonary artery catheterization using state-of-the-art technology to treat a life-threatening pulmonary embolism in a 64-year-old woman. The procedure was performed with success, and the patient was sent home in good condition

The reason for the decision – the significant drop in the number of patients. At the height of the pandemic, there were three coronavirus departments in operation at the hospital, and it was one of the most overloaded hospitals in Israel for a long time. The hospital will continue to accept coronavirus patients, as needed, using a separate dedicated system