A storm in the health system, following the exposure yesterday in "Israel Today" that the director of the Emek Hospital in Afula, Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum, said that the management of the Clalit Health Fund - the owners of the hospital - is trying to fire. The Doctors' Action Committee, which includes senior doctors and department heads, who in recent years have been working in an unprecedented way against the discrimination and discrimination of the medical service in the north of the country.
Dr. Rosenbaum raised the allegations in the application he filed this week against the fund to the Labor Court in Nazareth, demanding that he be fired from the hospital.
Following the exposure in "Israel Today", ten heads of councils and cities, whose residents receive medical service in the valley, turned to Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Clalit chairman Yohanan Locker. "We are following with concern what is happening in the valley, "That he and the department heads are waging war for us and for our residents - for whom the hospital is sometimes the only hope."
The heads of the authorities also wrote: "Over the years we have lived in a terrible social convention, according to which in the Negev, the Galilee and the valley we live five years less due to reduced medical resources and inaccessible technology. This needs to change. The dismissal of Dr. Rosenbaum, , They will not silence us or promote anything.
Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum, Photo: Gil Eliyahu-Ginny
"We consider Clalit responsible for our health, and call on it to implement the five-year plan announced by the previous CEO, Dr. David Davidson, which the new management recently canceled. We look forward to your meeting with Dr. Rosenbaum, his staff and hundreds of thousands of residents in the area."
Clalit responded: "Clalit is unquestionably committed to the development of the hospital and the health of the residents of the area. The hospital's development program continues, with the development momentum already visible in the field. Regarding staffing - we will not discuss this here."
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