Tragedy in Haifa: Dr. Shadi Aslan, 34, collapsed and died of a heart attack today (Saturday) while working at Bnei Zion Medical Center in the city. He left behind a child and a pregnant woman.
The family was informed of his death in great astonishment around noon. His funeral is expected tonight. “This is a very big tragedy,” he tells Walla! Fouad Awad, head of the Mizraa local council, “is a very talented guy, very well known and loved by all the villagers who we were very proud of.” The hospital said: “This is a great tragedy and we are in pain and very sad and share in the grief of the family.”
In 2019, the late Dr. Oren Sussman collapsed and died in the middle of a shift at Beilinson Hospital. Following this, his family embarked on a crowdfunding project to place 100 defibrillator stations across the country. The recruitment was crowned a success. His widow, Maayan Sussman, told Maariv in an interview: Not everyone is as young as Oren, but there are many in their 50s and 60s who could have had more years of life. Death from heart attacks is a death that makes no noise. Our story has made headlines because it is different when a doctor goes through it or an athlete. “In practice, 30 people go through it every day, whether it’s a taxi driver or a high-tech worker who fell in the parking lot.”
A similar case occurred about two years earlier, after a pediatrician in his 30s collapsed and died while working at Rambam Hospital. The doctor apparently died of a dramatic drop in blood sugar.