The shake-up at Haemek Hospital: Horowitz demands answers | Israel Today

Following the revelation in "Israel Today" about the unprecedented crisis at Haemek Hospital, a special discussion is scheduled for the Knesset Health Committee chaired by MK Idit Silman next Tuesday

. And the person in charge of the hospital in Afula, explanations for the claims of doctors and department heads in the medical institution about the discrimination of the hospital by the fund.

Israel Today revealed yesterday that the director of the Valley Hospital, Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum, claims that Clalit's management is trying to fire him because he "did not agree and did not fulfill the task of 'eliminating' the doctors' action committee." The committee consists of senior doctors and department heads At the medical institution, and works against the ongoing discrimination and deprivation of the hospital. Dr. Rosenbaum raised the allegations in a petition he filed against Clalit to the Labor Court in Nazareth, demanding that he be prevented from being fired and claiming that they were illegal.

The Valley Hospital includes 529 hospital beds and serves a population of more than 700,000 Israelis.

Following the doctors' protest, about a year ago, Prof. Ehud Davidson promised in his role as the fund's CEO that the hospital would become the fund's largest medical center in the north and the State of Israel in the north within five years. , Including heart surgeries, head surgeries and brain catheters.

But about a week ago, a meeting was held with the hospital's board, in which the fund's CEO Ruth Ralbag announced in a recorded conversation that contrary to public promises, the plan was not approved, does not exist and will not be so in the coming years. Who raised serious and unprecedented accusations against the fund's management, for lies and complete distrust of it. .

Yesterday, Minister Horowitz also demanded from the Clalit management "to receive the details of the circumstances in which it was decided to remove Dr. Rosenbaum from office, as well as the minutes of the discussions in the fund's management regarding this decision." Katz: "This is a significant damage to the health services in the north, and it is not possible for the fund to ignore department heads who warn that patients' lives may be in danger. Due to the neglect. "

Clalit's management stated that the fund is" committed as before and unquestionably to the development of the hospital and the health of the residents of the area. We will not discuss staffing here. "

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