Soroka Hospital

The family of 42-year-old Nura Abu Adara, who died following a cesarean section, claims that medical staff missed critical time. Relatives state she spent four hours in the emergency room with severe pain before being transferred to the maternity ward, where a liver rupture was finally identified.

A tragedy at Soroka Hospital: a 40-year-old woman in the 34th week of her seventh pregnancy has died following an emergency surgery. The patient arrived with abdominal pain, but a rare complication led to a rapid deterioration of her condition, and the fetus was delivered without signs of life.

An employee of Soroka Hospital injured his back while lifting laundry bags, but the National Insurance Institute claimed it was a routine action. The Labor Court accepted his claim, recognized the injury as a work-related injury, and ordered the institution to pay him 4,000 shekels in expenses.

Against the backdrop of the Ebola epidemic spreading in Africa, the Ministry of Health reports that a person who recently returned to Israel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is suspected of having the disease. The patient is currently in isolation.

A fatal road accident occurred on Tuesday evening on Highway 80 near the Tel Arad junction, involving a truck and a private vehicle. A man in his 50s was pronounced dead at the scene, while two others were evacuated to Soroka Hospital for further treatment.

A year after the direct hit of an Iranian missile disabled large parts of the hospital, a partnership was signed that will double the rehabilitation response in the south and, for the first time, provide inpatient rehabilitation for children as well.