Emunah Hasin
(right) introduces
Shayna Gould who was given a
second chance at life by Shaare
Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem |
Melvyn I.
Weiss (l-r) and wife Debra
and Stephen A.
Weiss and wife Bobbi |
SHAARE
ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER
A Shayna
Miracle For
Student From Chicago
By Tim Boxer
 HAYNA
GOULD came from Chicago to spend a year at a girl’s yeshiva
in Jerusalem. Last January the pretty 19-year-old student went to
the El Al office downtown to buy a ticket to London to visit a
friend.
Just as she crossed Jaffa
St. to take a bus back to her dorm a terrorist opened fire.
A bullet pierced her
chest.
Shayna was bundled into
an ambulance that was assigned to a certain hospital.
Every minute was crucial
whether she would live or die. A medic ordered the driver to
change direction and dash to a hospital that was closer.
“When we got word she
was on the way, the alarm bells went off,” said Emunah Hasin,
head nurse for 14 years at Shaare Zedek. “Everyone rushed to
prepare the emergency room.”
Emunah looked at the
badly wounded body and recalled, “I saw that she wasn’t
breathing. Her color was the color of death. She was clinically
brain dead.”
But this was Shaarey
Zedek Medical Center, which prides itself as “the hospital with
a heart.” A team of compassionate doctors went to work.
Several days later,
Shayna opened her eyes.
She returned to her
parents in Chicago where she is now studying interior design.
Michael
S. Strauss (l-r), dinner chairman;
Jonathan Halevy, Shaare Zedek
director-general; David Z. Gordon, and
Menno Ratzker, president of the American
Committee |
Emunah, now director of
external affairs at the hospital, recently introduced Shayna to
600 Shaarey Zedek supporters at the Grand Hyatt in New York.
“The people at Shaare
Zedek are miracle workers,” Shayna said. “I was given a gift
by them to start life anew.”
At first she was very
worried. She didn’t know how serious her injuries were. She had
lost her left lung.
“I asked if I could
have children. They said yes. I said okay. What else is there?”
The American Committee
for Shaare Zedek centennial dinner was held under the direction of
Michael Strauss, chairman of the New York board, and Paul
S. Glasser, national executive director. Menno Ratzker
is national president.
The event honored
Ambassador Yehoshua Trigor, Melvyn I. Weiss, Stephen A. Weiss,
David Z. Gordon, and Dr. Eric and Gertrude
Offenbacher.
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