Thessaloniki: The infant is in critical condition – He underwent head surgery – 2024-04-15 13:07:52

A 5.5-month-old infant is hospitalized in a critical condition in the Children’s ICU of the Hippocrates Hospital of Thessaloniki. According to information, this is a little girl who had to undergo a lengthy surgery due to a hematoma on the head.

According to information, around 21:30 on Friday night, a woman arrived at the gate of the “Papanikolau” hospital, holding her infant in her arms and begging for help for her child. At the hospital, even though it was not on duty and does not have a pediatric clinic, the alarm was immediately raised and all the staff mobilized to provide first aid to the little girl.

Superhuman effort to save himself

As reported by thestival.gr, when the child reached the hands of the doctors and nurses of the “Papanikolaou” he had suffered a miscarriage. They immediately rushed him to resuscitation to revive him and give him oxygen. There, despite superhuman efforts, he suffered two more interruptions. After an hour and a half, doctors managed to stabilize the infant’s condition.

After being intubated, he was taken by EKAV ambulance to the “Papageorgiou” hospital, which he was in charge of. There, the doctors decided that he should be transferred to the Hippocrates, which has a Children’s Intensive Care Unit.

The little girl was finally transferred to the “Ippokrateio” hospital. He underwent a CT scan and it was determined that he had internal bleeding in his head and that he needed immediate surgery. So around 3 in the morning the surgery began which – according to information from thestival.gr – lasted a long time. The little girl is being treated at the Children’s ICU of “Ippokrateiou” and her health condition is characterized as extremely critical.

“It was a superhuman effort made by all of us. I want to thank all the staff who were at the hospital yesterday and the on-call coordinator who helped to save this child. They all acted so immediately and as a team, under particularly difficult conditions”, reports the hospital’s anesthesiologist, Ioanna Dimitropoulou, to thestival.gr.