Treatment of children in Israel

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

The main thing is to choose a hospital, where the problems of the child's health 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. All of them have the most up-to-date equipment, with the help of which within five hours are ready all the results of the survey, on the basis of which the express diagnostics are carried out.

Methods of treating children in Israel

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

Cancer - leukemia and brain tumors - is still the leading cause of death in children in developed countries. Methods of treating children in Israel with such diagnoses have been improved in recent years to such an extent that the number of cured patients with leukemia has increased to 75%. In clinics, there is a protocol for the treatment of acute lymphocytic leukemia in children, developed by the Israel Cancer Assotiation, which includes cytoreductive therapy (chemotherapy), radiation therapy and bone marrow transplantation. In addition, pediatric oncology uses photodynamic therapy, which - unlike chemotherapy - is transferred almost painlessly.

In the treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma, chemotherapy is the preferred method, but before it starts, bone marrow cells are used in the patient that are used for autologous transplantation (cells are introduced back into the patient's body) in cases when the disease recurses after the 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 multi-disciplinary medical institutions, which allows using the latest technologies and approaches to the treatment of many diseases and congenital pathologies.

Souraski Medical Cente in Tel Aviv (formerly the Ichilov Hospital) has a center for obstetrics and gynecology, the Lis, the Dana-Duek Children's Hospital and the Suraski Rehabilitation Center. Thanks to modern technologies and professionalism of doctors, the MC Suraski has earned international recognition. And the children's medical center Dana-Duek is considered one of the best pediatric hospitals in Israel and is known as the leading center for children's hematology, oncology, neurosurgery and gastroenterology. Not only the whole spectrum of medical and diagnostic procedures is performed here, but also complex cardiosurgical, neurosurgical and oncological operations, as well as organ transplantation operations.

The surgical complex of the Herzliya Medical Center also has everything necessary to carry out the most complex interventions - cardiosurgical, oncological, neurosurgical, and for endoscopic minimally invasive treatment of various diseases of internal organs.

Safra Children's Hospital at the Sheba Medical Center is engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of child patients from birth to 16 years old and has departments: neurosurgery, resuscitation, hemato-oncology and bone marrow transplantation, congenital malformations heart, treatment of the syndrome of Louis-Bar (congenital immunodeficiency state), gastroenterology, immunology, rheumatology. In addition, in this medical institution to sit a pediatric endocrinology clinic, whose specialists can cure various hormonal disorders in children, leading to obesity and diabetes.

Among the clinics in Israel for the treatment of children, it is necessary to mention the specialized children's medical center Schneider Children's Medical Center - the children's hospital Schneider (in the largest in Israel multi-center Rabin 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 Development and Rehabilitation of Children. Hospital Schneider - is a recognized leader in the field of transplantation to children of the bone marrow (including from a non-native donor). Rehabilitation of children's health is achieved in 80% of acute lymphoblastic leukemia; 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.

Also in the Schneider Children's Hospital microsurgical operations on the brain are performed, tumors in the spinal cord are removed, and the cranial pathologies of children are treated and corrected, including Arnold-Chiari syndrome, hydrocephalitis, syringomyelia and cerebral palsy. And the Children's Rheumatology Center is treating children with systemic lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome, scleroderma, polymyositis and polychondritis, reactive arthropathy, enteropathic spondylitis, Behcet's syndrome, Burger's disease and Kawasaki's disease.

The Children's Hospital Mayer (part of the state-run Rambam) has been working 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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The cost of treating children in Israel

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

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

Reviews about the treatment of children in Israel

Comments on the treatment in Israel of children in the majority of cases are positive. Moreover, many parents who managed to organize the treatment of their child in one of the clinics of Israel, say that the local doctors rescued 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 contributions to health care in this country (more than 8% of GNP), a high level of professional qualification of doctors, and investments in research in the field of medicine and the construction of medical institutions.