A 5-year-old girl from Panim Meiros Street the Mattersdorf area of the capital, has died in Shaare Zedek Hospital. The girl arrived in the hospital on Tuesday night as CPR was being performed on her. Doctors fought to stabilize her condition during the night, but she was niftar on Tuesday morning.

United Hatzalah EMT Yosef Chaim Ben-Tzvi explains “The dispatch center received a call for a 5-year-old girl who lost consciousness in her Jerusalem home. When I arrived on the scene we found her in cardiac arrest and began CPR”.

Advanced life support was implemented by MDA paramedics and the child was transported to Shaare Zedek.

It is explained the child had a high fever for the days preceding her death. The levaya took place at Shamgar Funeral Home at 11:00am.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)