There were many smiles at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital last week. On Thursday, July 11, 2019, at 7:15AM, a baby girl was born to Ella and Itzik Tzemach, both employees of the hospital. According to hospital records, the girl is the 400,000th baby born in Shaare Zedek since 1982, when they began digital birth registrations.
The baby weighed in at 2.240kg (4.9 lbs.) and she is the second girl born to the couple, both sisters to the eldest child, a son. The hospital’s director, Prof. Ofer Marin and other members of the staff caring for mom and her daughter, presented a gift from ‘Mommy Care’ as well as an outfit marking the occasion.
The hospital is the oldest in the city, operating since 1902, and during its 117-years of operation, hundreds of thousands of babies were born but the digital registration only began in 1982. Hospital officials add that 400,000 babies were born in 392,783 births, meaning to say that in over 7000 births, more than one child was born.
Prof Marin congratulated the mother and her family. “We are proud of our large and professional birthing unit at Shaare Zedek and we are happy with each birth, as it is the hospital’s first. On behalf of the entire Shaare Zedek team, we wish the Tzemach family great happiness and health”.
Head of the hospital’s gynecology & obstetrics unit, Prof. Sorina Grisaru-Granovsky: “Shaare Zedek, with its two campuses, is the birthplace of more than a third of Jerusalem’s children and about 10% of Israel’s children. Entire generations of families were born in Shaare Zedek. Grandmothers and mothers accompanied by granddaughters and daughters awaiting birth in our institution. The birth experience, the confidence that the mothers and families feel with their arrival at Shaare Zedek, over 100 years is a basis for our reputation and the hope of continuing to provide this service according to the highest standards into the 21st century”.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem/Photo Credit: Shaare Zedek Spokesman Unit via Media Resource Group)
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“400,000 babies were born in 392,783 births, meaning to say that in over 7000 births, more than one child was born.”
Not necessarily correct. For example: There could have been 1,000 births of triplets and 5,217 births of twins.