The late Sharona Elhadad's family is suing Soroka Hospital after she died of a violent bacterium during a stay with her son who was in a coma

• The late Sharona Alhaid. "Treat her like she has the flu" // Photo: Courtesy of the family

58-year-old Sharona Alhadad visited her son every day who was admitted to the intensive care unit at Soroka Hospital. After two weeks of visits, she was also hospitalized with severe pneumonia after contracting a violent bacterium and died within three days, on the day the son was released from the hospital.

Her heirs claim the hospital's negligence, since she has not been briefed on the precautions she should take during her visits.
About a year ago, the son of the deceased was admitted to Soroka, initially in the ICU and later in the Surgical Department. During his hospitalization, he had acquired pneumonia in the hospital, and during those days his mother, Sharona, not Moshe from his bed and visited him on a daily basis. She died three days.

Delilah, the nurse, said: "It's delusional. Treat her like she has the flu. She deteriorated in a few hours. We trusted the doctors who told us: two days of antibiotics and she's out."

The family filed a lawsuit in Rishon Lezion to file a lawsuit through lawyers Yair Nahmias and Carmi Bustanai, claiming medical malpractice compensation.

Adv. Bustanai: "If the necessary precautions were taken - would be alive"

"Especially in the current circumstances of a daily visit - after all, it is, in all likelihood, infected with Soroka," the lawyers argued, adding that it was a violent bacterium defined by the World Health Organization as the first of the 12 most dangerous bacteria.

The lawyers also claimed that the mother was admitted to the hospital due to respiratory distress and fever illness, and tests revealed that she had contracted a violent bacterium and within a short time her condition had deteriorated - but despite this it was decided not to enter the ICU. Only after further deterioration was she transferred to intensive care. The claim was accompanied by the opinion of a lung disease specialist and internal medicine stating that "if the usual precautions were taken, it would have stayed alive".

As noted, prosecutors say the hospital added a sin of crime when he tried to say the mother was infected with the community and not the hospital. The expert criticized this fact, stating: "Since the deceased visited the hospital for a long period, it is reasonable and reasonable to refer to the infection that has occurred as an acquired infection and another presentation is sinful to the truth and constitutes a distortion of reality."

Lior, her son, said: "Mum came to visit me when I was in a coma for months. The whole day was around me. She was infected while she was staying next to me. She was everything to us for life."

Soroka Hospital reported: Participants in family grief. The lawsuit has come to us these days. We will respond as usual as part of the legal process.