The Mexican Ambassador to Israel, H. E. Mauricio Escanero, visited Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem in March 2022, accompanied by his cultural attaché José Alberto Navarro.
This visit is in conjunction with the recently created Hadassah Health LATAM Ambassadors Forum and its outcome will benefit ties between Hadassah Medical Organization and Mexico.
The delegation was received by Hadassah Medical Organization management officials Prof. Yoram Weiss, acting director-general of Hadassah Medical Organization, Dr. Inon Buda, acting director de Hadassah Ein Kerem, Dr. Shiri Tenenbaum, deputy director de Hadassah Ein Kerem, Prof. Charles Weissman, Coordinator of Accreditation Initiative and former head of Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Mexican doctors and residents at Hadassah Dr. David Laniado, Dr. Nisso Bechar, Dr. Jonathan Zaga, Dr. Gabriel Szidlo, as well as a representative of Hadassah international Jeanne Vachon-Flores, Latin America project manager.
Ambassador Mauricio Escanero and José Alberto Navarro toured Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem and visited the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower where Dr. Laniado and Dr. Bechar showed them the Orthopedic department and Dr. Zaga gave them an inside VIP tour of the surgical room and gave them a full explanation of the robotic technology and groundbreaking techniques of Hadassah Medical Center.
Dr. Zaga and Dr. Laniado also took the visitors to the Traumatology Center in the Center for Emergency Medicine, which was also used to treat injured Ukrainian refugees a week earlier.
