THE JERUSALEM POST 2/24/00: Ofra Haza dies via ZINC-2/24/00-Golan deal?

[Jacob J Freedman <sundaymorningklezmer...>]

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16. Ofra Haza dies

THE JERUSALEM POST 2/24/00: "Singer Ofra Haza died in Sheba
Hospital at 7:40 last night, the cause of the shocking
deterioration in her health as mysterious as the official
announcement when she was first admitted 13 days earlier.The Haza
family left without speaking to the press, having adamantly
refused to allow doctors to offer any details of the cause of her
multiple organ failure. They did, however, agree to a short
statement by hospital deputy director-general Ze'ev Rothstein.
Rothstein barely got out the words "I am sorry to announce the
death of Ofra Haza" when a crowd of more than 100 gathered in the
hospital's emergency wing uttered a collective groan,  followed
by some bursting into tears and others displaying a frustrated
scowl.

Rothstein said Haza had walked into the hospital two weeks ago
and that her condition quickly deteriorated and became serious,
with multiple organ failure. Haza was sedated, admitted to the
respiratory intensive care unit, attached to a dialysis machine
because of kidney failure, and given various drugs intravenously.
Her condition "teetered between despair and hope" since her
admission, he said. Haza's heart stopped beating last night,
Rothstein said, because of an abnormal increase in hydrogen in
the body, which occurs when carbohydrates are burned by the body
without enough oxygen. Rothstein did not mention the "pneumonia"
and "complications of the flu" that the hospital had initially
reported with reluctant permission from the family. The official
explanations are unlikely to halt the wild rumors raised in the
public due to the lack of information. When pressed by reporters
for a medical explanation, Rothstein explained it was "Ofra's own
request" and that of her family that her privacy be respected..."

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