Virus patients at one Israeli hospital are not dying alone

Elisheva Stern wasn't ready to say goodbye to her ailing father, who was succumbing to the coronavirus in an Israeli hospital.

But knowing countless others around the world are not given the chance to say their last farewells to sick relatives, she decided to enter the virus ward and be by her father's bedside, even if only for a brief moment, before he died.

Stern's father, Simha Benshai, 75, died at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center, which offers the next of kin of dying coronavirus patients the rare opportunity to say goodbye in person.

None of us want to say bye to the people who we love. But I'm actually happy that they gave me the opportunity to say bye to my father, said Stern.

I was able to see him and to tell him I'm sorry and I love him."
"This is our moral duty as medical staff and as human beings. No one shall be allowed to die alone."