Following the revelations in "Israel Today", and following the public pressure to correct the discrimination of Haemek Hospital in Afula, Clalit Health Services Director General Ruth Ralbag contacted Prof. Nachman Ash, Director General of the Ministry of Health, a week ago and asked for immediate approval to open a heart surgery department at the hospital. The Valley, which will be sponsored by the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva - one of the largest in the country
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Ralbag also asked for permission to open new heart surgery wards at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba and Hillel Yaffe in Hadera, also under the auspices of the Beilinson Hospital Cooking Surgery Department.
The Department of Cardiac Surgery is one of the departments that in March 2021 was promised by Clalit's management to be established as part of the five-year plan to promote the Valley Hospital. Large, which can give a fuller, higher quality and more comprehensive service than small hospitals.
Israel Today revealed a week ago that the director of Haemek Hospital, Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum, made allegations that Clalit management was trying to fire Petro from running the hospital, after "failing in its mission to 'eliminate' the doctors' action committee," the same committee Which is made up of senior doctors and department heads at the hospital, which works against the hospital's ongoing discrimination and discrimination.
Today, the Valley Hospital includes 529 hospital beds and serves a population of more than 700,000 Israelis from the northern region. To the large medical center of the fund in the north.
Ruth Ralbag, Photo: Rami Zranger
However, about two weeks ago, a meeting was held with the hospital's management, in which Ralbag announced, in a conversation recorded on the recording, that contrary to the public promises, the plan was not approved at all by the fund's management.
The conversation revealed that the five-year plan had not been approved at all by the fund's management, and there is no real chance that the Ministry of Health will approve cardiac surgery departments for the Emek and Meir hospitals.
A week ago, there was a turnaround, and Clalit's CEO changed her position again and wrote to the director general of the Ministry of Health: "The need to establish heart surgery units to provide a solution for all residents of the country is clear. At the Emek, Meir and Hillel Yaffe hospitals, they will respond immediately and provide a solution for the residents of the north and the Sharon. "
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