Patient Stories

Last month, a celebratory atmosphere filled the halls of the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba. The occasion marked a significant milestone in…

Looking back at 2020, 55-year-old Kerry Louise Matthews was in love with her life. Despite the pandemic, the UK native had just started on a…

Adiroop Kumar was diagnosed with a rare genetic disease called AADC deficiency at only six months old. The condition is caused by changes to the…

After developing a fever, 4-year-old Maria was brought to the hospital in her native Cyprus by her parents, Nikolas and Ioana. Doctors diagnosed her with…

“Aknur was born prematurely when I was only 28 weeks pregnant,” recalled her mother, Diana. “As her lungs were not yet able to function on…

At 17, Isenia, a native of Semey, Kazakhstan, noticed a lump on her leg the size of a small apple. Initially, Isenia and her family…

Maria's story started a year before her diagnosis. She began feeling tired and apathetic, but blood tests indicated nothing was wrong. When symptoms worsened, her…

Igor's mother recalls the birth of her son as a challenging experience. He was hospitalized for about a month following respiratory failure requiring resuscitation. Fortunately,…

On March 30th, Darina was staying at her grandmother’s house with her mother, Natasha, in a small northern Ukrainian town when an explosion suddenly shook…