After the fierce attack by the retiring professor on the Second Wave's conduct, her former colleagues are backing fire: "She is soloist and forceful - and opposed to expanding the testing set."

Following the resignation of the head of health services at the Ministry of Health, Prof. Sigal Sadecki, who was also accompanied by a fierce attack on the conduct of the Ministry of Health in the second wave, the Ministry of Health is returning fire.

Photo: Adina Wallman, Knesset spokeswoman

The Health Ministry was not surprised by the retirement announcement. This is against the backdrop of recent criticism by Professor Eli Waxman, who served as the head of the Advisory staff on the fight against the virus.

"Siegel is a soloist and a force. Contrary to what she wrote in her letter, she was not in favor of expanding the tests. Good sign went after what she said, but from the time a new CEO arrived who was a doctor who asked questions and didn't get everything she said - things changed," he said. Office factor. "You can't work alone on an event like the Corona Crisis, plotting Grotto and the epidemic staff."

"Professor Sadecki and Professor Grotto messed up the establishment of the epidemiological investigations at the level required by an investigative committee," says another source involved in the work of the Ministry of Health during the crisis. "The people I have known for weeks have been saying that Sadecki and Grotto have not let the investigations under Project Zeppert rise, insisting that the Ministry of Health is conducting excellent investigations on its own - despite clear evidence that they have not. They put endless sticks in the wheels. "

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In recent days, the critical discourse over the Ministry of Health's preparedness for the second wave has intensified, and the fact that the time obtained has not been used to expand the epidemiological investigation system. Apart from Eli Waxman's criticism, Prof. Zvi Eckstein, dean of the Tiomkin School of Economics at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, said at a Corona Health Policy meeting held last night by the National Institute of Health Policy Research: "Taiwan and South Korea were plagued by the SARS. They took three important steps: testing - conducting broad-scale tests to detect carriers, identifying pathways of infection, and rapid epidemiological investigations to identify the contacts. They actually made point closures, but never had a total closure and did not hurt the local economy. These countries did this in January, in July already and in July no neat testing, monitoring and isolation mechanism has been set up that includes the closure of the adhesive chains. It's a huge failure and somebody had to pay the price for it. "