Treatment of children in Israel

Treatment of children in Israel is carried out by medical institutions that specialize exclusively in pediatric care.

The main thing is to choose a hospital where the child's health problems will be solved by specialists working in medical fields corresponding to the patient's diagnosis. And there are enough such medical centers in this country. They all have the most modern equipment, with the help of which all the examination results are ready within five hours, on the basis of which express diagnostics are carried out.

Treatment methods for children in Israel

Treatment methods for children in Israel – as well as for adult patients – depend on the specific diagnosis, but in any case, doctors use all the possibilities of conservative therapy. However, the disease itself or the stage of its development often requires surgical intervention. Thus, in Israel there are special children's cardiology clinics that treat newborns and infants with various heart pathologies, using endoscopic methods to eliminate heart defects.

Cancer - leukemia and brain tumors - is still the leading cause of death in children in developed countries. Treatment methods for children with such diagnoses in Israel have improved so much in recent years that the number of cured patients with leukemia has increased to 75%. The clinics have a protocol for treating acute lymphocytic leukemia in children, developed by the Israel Cancer Association, which includes cytoreductive therapy (chemotherapy), radiation therapy and surgery (bone marrow transplant). In addition, photodynamic therapy is used in pediatric oncology, which - unlike chemotherapy - is tolerated almost painlessly.

Chemotherapy is the preferred treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, but before it is started, bone marrow cells are removed from the patient and used for autologous transplantation (cells are injected back into the patient's body) when the disease recurs after an initial chemotherapy-induced remission.

Clinics in Israel for the treatment of children

The main clinics in Israel for the treatment of children are part of multidisciplinary medical institutions, which allows the use of the latest technologies and approaches to the treatment of many diseases and congenital pathologies.

The Souraski Medical Center in Tel Aviv (formerly Ichilov Hospital) includes the Lis Obstetrics and Gynecology Center, the Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital and the Souraski Rehabilitation Center. Thanks to modern technology and the professionalism of its doctors, the Souraski Medical Center has earned international recognition. And the Dana-Dwek Children's Medical Center is considered one of the best pediatric hospitals in Israel and is known as a leading center for pediatric hematology, oncology, neurosurgery and gastroenterology. Not only the entire spectrum of treatment and diagnostic procedures is performed here, but also complex cardiac, neurosurgical and oncological operations, as well as organ transplant operations.

The operating complex of the Herzliya Medical Center clinic also has everything necessary to perform the most complex interventions - cardiac surgery, oncology, neurosurgery, as well as endoscopic minimally invasive treatment of various diseases of internal organs.

Safra Children's Hospital at Sheba Medical Center diagnoses and treats pediatric patients from birth to 16 years of age and has departments of neurosurgery, intensive care, hemato-oncology and bone marrow transplantation, congenital heart defects, treatment of Louis-Bar syndrome (congenital immunodeficiency), gastroenterology, immunology, and rheumatology. In addition, this medical institution has a pediatric endocrinology clinic, whose specialists can treat various hormonal disorders in children that lead to obesity and diabetes.

Among the clinics in Israel for the treatment of children, it is necessary to note the specialized children's medical center Schneider Children's Medical Center - Schneider Children's Hospital (part of the largest multidisciplinary Rabin Medical Center in Israel in Petah Tikva). The center was founded in 1991, and today it includes the Department of Pediatric Transplantology, the Department of Pediatric Orthopedics, the Department of Pediatric Urology, the National Center for Pediatric Oncohematology, the Institute of Pediatric Cardiology, the Institute of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, the Center for Child Development and Rehabilitation. Schneider Hospital is a recognized leader in the field of bone marrow transplantation to children (including from a non-relative donor). Restoration of children's health is achieved in 80% of cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia; in 90-95% - with Wilms tumor, retinoblastoma and Hodgkin's lymphoma; in 80-85% - with lymphoblastic lymphoma and medulloblastoma; in 65-70% - with osteogenic sarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma.

Schneider Children's Hospital also performs microsurgical operations on the brain, removes tumors in the spinal cord, treats and corrects cranial pathologies in children, including Arnold-Chiari syndrome, hydrocephalitis, syringomyelia and cerebral palsy. And the Center for Pediatric Rheumatology treats children with systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome, scleroderma, polymyositis and polychondritis, reactive arthropathy, enteropathic spondylitis, Behçet's syndrome, Buerger's disease and Kawasaki disease.

Mayer Children's Hospital (part of the state-owned Rambam Medical Center) has been operating since 1986 and also provides modern medical services in all areas of pediatrics, including hematology and oncology, endocrinology and gastroenterology, nephrology and urology, otolaryngology, allergology, immunology, etc.

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Cost of treatment for children in Israel

For example, the cost of a consultation with an oncologist is on average $650-700; an ultrasound of the abdominal organs is about $500, an MRI of one part of the body (for example, the brain or pelvic organs) is up to $2,000. And an operation costs from $28,000 and up.

As you understand, the cost of treating children in Israel varies and directly depends on the specific disease and the volume of diagnostic and therapeutic manipulations, various procedures and medications that are used in the treatment. Doctors name an approximate price, which can change significantly, especially if any complications arise.

Reviews of treatment in Israel for children

Reviews of children's treatment in Israel are overwhelmingly positive. Moreover, many parents who managed to arrange treatment for their child in one of the Israeli clinics claim that the local doctors saved their son or daughter.

Indeed, medicine in Israel, in particular, the treatment of children in Israel, is recognized as one of the most advanced in the world. Obviously, this is facilitated by significant deductions for health care in this country (more than 8% of the GNP), and the high level of professional qualification of doctors, and investments in scientific research in the field of medicine and the construction of medical institutions.