Moshe Harazi dies after his resuscitation device was disconnected • Hospital director general in an interview with News 13: "We are still in a difficult event, such cases must not return"
"It is heartbreaking and difficult for me on a very personal level":
Ichilov's CEO, Prof. Roni Gamzo, wept when he referred to the death of the late Moshe Harazi, who died after his ventilator was disconnected.
"Taking the blame - on me," he said in an interview with News 13.
"I'm running the hospital, I'm there in the ward. There's brothers, nurses and doctors there - in the end it's me. I'm giving them everything I can, all the explanation," he said.
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"At this point I have to back up the team and increase its spirit."
He said, "We are still in a difficult event. We must not let such cases happen and come back, and that is a difficult burden."
On the lessons learned as a result of the case: "We changed some procedures. I asked to add more nurses to increase the staff. And yet, you never know exactly what the right staff is. We also change the control room procedure, creating a role of supervisor who is constantly on top "The monitors are part of the things we will continue to learn and prepare for."
Asked if there was a defect in the medical equipment he replied: "The instrumentation alerting the patient was OK. The respirator equipment was also not a problem. The disconnection was done in a way that was hard to see it happened, and it took time to notice.
