On Wednesday, the Sa’adah twins had their bris and later in the day, the family got up from shiva. Another bittersweet day like the one last week when the twins were born and their mom Galit Sa’adah-Ofir died of internal bleeding that went undetected during the night following delivery. She was found dead in her bed by a medical team.

According to Tomer, a brother of Galit, the fight will then get underway, with the family blaming the staff of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem for failing to properly address the condition of his sister. The preliminary investigation has already revealed that Galit during the hours following her admission to the ward and during the night called the nurses station numerous times complaining of abdominal pain and feeling like “passing out”. She was given a non-prescription medication a number of times, and despite the fact that the nurse phoned the on-duty physician repeatedly, he never saw fit to make a personal visit and check his patient.

It was also learned that the nurse who headed the shift was on her first shift in a supervisory capacity and some of the more veteran staff members report that a more seasoned nurse would have gotten the doctor to come by telling him “so you are refusing to come and check her. I will make the appropriate entry in her chart” and he would have come. They explain she was too new to understand that is how things work sometimes, that the nurse must compel the physician to come when she feels the patient’s condition demands but the doctor does not understand the severity of the events.

Malpractice attorney Dori Caspi is calling on the hospital’s administration to accept responsibility for the failure of the medical staff to properly treat the mom, who a number of hours prior to her death delivered two healthy boys by C-section, and then bled to death internally while no one detected the steady deterioration in her condition. Towards the morning hours, a nurse went to check her vital signs and felt she was cold, and it was soon learned that it was too late, that she had died in her sleep of hypovolemia, a profound blood loss.

Hadassah officials’ reject allegations that the surgery may have been performed by junior residents, insisting the team was seasoned and the procedure went well, without complications. The hospital did however add an addendum, that while the surgery was routine, some of the members of the medical team present during the C-section were inexperienced.

For now, the father and grandparents are pained, trying their best to take care of the boys. It appears at present that only one will have a bris on Wednesday and the second’s will take place when he gains a bit of weight.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)