In a recent interview with The Media Line, Prof. Yoram Weiss, director general of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem, explains that medical professionals are encountering not only the visible wounds of Israel’s warriors, but also the invisible “wounds” of post-traumatic stress disorder affecting civilians as well as military personnel.
Since October 7, doctors at Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem have treated hundreds of victims of Hamas terrorism. Many are receiving advanced rehabilitation care, including at the new Gandel Rehabilitation Center at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus. Still others, including children who survived the October 7 attacks, displaced civilians and medical staff treating war injuries, are receiving psychological services.
Prof. Weiss advises people to talk openly about PTSD and portray it “as something that can happen to any one of us” and to ask for support. “The more you wait with post-traumatic stress disorder, the more it settles in and then it’s much [more] difficult to treat it,” Prof. Weiss told The Media Line.
Read the complete interview with Prof. Weiss, published by The Media Line and The Jerusalem Post.