Touching! Son Climbs Hospital Building to Sit with Mother Over COVID-19

A 30-year-old Palestinian man, Jihad Al-Suwaiti, climbed up the hospital building to sit by the window ledge of his mother’s hospital room while she was down with coronavirus.

The devoted son was not allowed to visit his mother Rasma Salema in person after she tested positive for coronavirus and was admitted to a hospital in Hebron, in the West Bank.

Despite the visiting ban, Jihad used a drainpipe and another window ledge to climb up the hospital building so he could sit with his mother, who also had leukaemia, behind the safety of her window.

A moving photo shows Jihad sitting on the window ledge. He returned each day until his mother sadly passed away last Thursday, Bored Panda reported.

A hospital official was quoted in local media as saying: ‘He spent most of his day there, observing his mother’s condition from outside the window, before coming down when he was convinced that his mother was fast asleep.’

Jihad was reportedly the woman’s youngest son and had lost his father 15 years previously.