A 5.5-month-old girl is being treated in a stable but critical condition at the “Ippokrateo” hospital in Thessaloniki. The infant even had to undergo a lengthy surgery to treat internal bleeding in the head. Medical and nursing staff at the “Papanicolaou” hospital, where the little girl was initially transferred, made a superhuman effort to keep her alive.

According to his information thestival.gr, around 21:30 on Friday night, a woman arrived at the gate of the “Papanicolaou” 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.

Information from thestival.gr states that 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 had 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 found that he had internal bleeding in the 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 state of health is characterized as extremely critical.

One of the first to rush to help the 5.5-month-old girl at the “Papanikolaou” hospital, where the infant was initially transferred, was the hospital’s anesthesiologist, Ioanna Dimitropoulou. It is about the doctor who a few months ago collapsed while on duty and on Friday night she and her colleagues did everything humanly possible to save the 5.5 month old baby.

Together with other doctors and nurses at the hospital, she fought her own battle to revive the little girl after the 3 abortions she had suffered and managed to keep her alive. “It was a superhuman effort made by all of us. I want to thank all the staff that 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”, Ms. Dimitropoulou reports to thestival.gr.