Following the revelations in "Israel Today": In a discussion held yesterday (Tuesday) in the Knesset Health Committee on the severe crisis at Haemek Hospital in Afula, Dr. Boaz Bloch, director of the psychiatric unit, said that "the hospital has become a warehouse, and we have become an escapade. You are run over and suffer from discrimination and terrible neglect. "
The directors of the hospital departments made very serious allegations against the management of Clalit, the owner of the hospital, and against the heads of the Ministry of Health, which caused the hospital to suffer severe and long-term discrimination compared to its counterparts in the north. Dr. Bloch wondered, "The Valley was a glorious institution, and I will work at it until my last days as a physician. We will fight for this hospital until we can tell the public that it is getting the minimum in the 21st century."
To illustrate the serious condition of the hospital, Prof. Doron Koppelman, director of the B surgery department at the hospital, said that a premature baby born at the Haemek hospital should ride in a stroller and walk on broken floors until he arrives at the hospital ward.
I'm not a pediatrician, but I know it can cause irreversible damage to a baby.
"Even a wounded person with a head injury should be transferred to another hospital, and so with patients with a chest injury and those who need heart surgery or head surgery - services that Clalit, for some reason, do not think are coming to the Northern District."
Prof. Koppelman also said that he "discriminates against the population that the hospital serves, which is mostly weakened and does not know how to meet the requirements.
There is a shortage in all areas - doctors, nurses, dietitians and physiotherapists. "Prof. Nimrod Rosen, director of the orthopedics and rehabilitation division at HaEmek, joined in and said: This one was wrong.
"Even the assumption that managers over us are telling the truth has been proven wrong, and I ask: Where is the Minister of Health? Where is the director general of the Ministry of Health?
"Apparently they are not so bothered by what is happening in the north of the country."
In conclusion, the committee's chairman, MK Idit Silman, announced that the committee will monitor and monitor the Clalit data presented, as well as data that the Ministry of Health will be required to present in light of what came up in the discussion.
"We will soon have a comprehensive tour of the hospital as well as a rehearsal in the committee to know where things stand," she said. That should be resolved. "
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