A series of particularly severe and serious complaints from senior doctors and department heads are directed against the activities of Haemek Hospital in Afula.
The serious complaints revealed here arise from internal documents submitted a week ago to the Labor Court in Nazareth by Clalit Health Fund, in response to a request submitted by the director of the Valley Hospital in Afula, Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum, against the attempt to fire him.
Among the complaints: respiratory patients falling out of beds, patients in intensive care in a critical condition die due to lack of treatment, and unprofessional conduct to the point of indifference to harm to patients.
As revealed in "Israel Today", Rosenbaum made unprecedented allegations that the attempt to fire Petro was made, he said, "because I did not agree and did not meet the task of 'eliminating' the doctors' action committee," which includes department heads working against ongoing discrimination and discrimination in the valley. ".
Dr. Rosenbaum further claims in his application that the attempt to fire Petro is "manifestly illegal, contrary to the values and duties of a public body and was done while Clalit acted in extreme bad faith." His ability to manage the hospital properly. The court hearing is set for this morning.
Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum, Photo: Gil Eliyahu-Ginny
According to senior doctors, even before the court's decision is made, the cases that Clalit itself reveals to the court indicate the fund's responsibility for the hospital's difficult situation, and illustrate how unsuccessful the hospital's functioning is, and how much it could even endanger a million lives. Israelis in the north.
According to documents submitted by Clalit to the tribunal, about 30 interns signed an extraordinary petition in June 2021 to Dr. Rosenbaum and his two deputies, Dr. David Almog and Dr. Ofer Tamir, warning of "extreme congestion in the emergency room and pediatric wards, and fear of lack of You were able to carry out our role to the point of endangering human life. "
A general response to the tribunal describes an unusual case, when on November 8, 2021, a journalist toured the hospital's intensive care unit, accompanied by a hospital spokeswoman.
The spokeswoman described the meeting in a detailed letter sent to the hospital's management and Clalit, and even noted that she and the hospital's deputy director, Dr. Ofer Tamir, tried to prevent him from having to go to intensive care and convince him that they would provide him with the data. Ours is the most problematic in the country. "
A week ago, the chairman of the Knesset Health Committee, MK Idit Silman, warned of the dire state of intensive care, telling Israel Today that during her visit to the hospital she saw "shocking hospitalization and working conditions and severe overcrowding," claiming that "the situation In a terrible department. "
"It is better to die quickly"
Indeed, according to the letter, during the journalist's visit, two senior doctors in intensive care made horrific allegations about the failed and dangerous treatment of critically ill patients, and these things were said, according to the spokeswoman's letter, even though she tried to dissuade them from doing so.
According to a document filed with the tribunal, doctors described cases where "respiratory patients fell out of bed," and one of them complained that "patients are dying because we have no ability to treat them," and Rosenbaum replied that "they die everywhere, it is better to die quickly."
The doctors further complained that there were cases where "the equipment and medicines ran out", and that they "warned of failures several times before each of the members of the management, and no one did anything about it".
Haemek Hospital, Photo: Gil Eliyahu Ginny
Clalit wrote to the court that the case "is another expression of the serious state of affairs, when the hospital doctors and its staff do not trust it and are not secretive in spite of it."
In response to the doctors 'complaints, Rosenbaum wrote to Clalit's management that "the doctors' claims constitute defamation, while harming the good name and the name of many managers and staff."
Indifferent to patients
Documents submitted by Clalit to the court allege allegations regarding the affair, in which Dr. Rosenbaum raised complaints about the director of the hospital's lung unit, Dr. Amnon Ariel, and claimed that he tried to summon him to a disciplinary hearing regarding "serious deficiencies in the unit's management and work." On July 7, 2021, the then CEO of Clalit, Dr. Ehud Davidson, and Dr. Orly Weinstein, director of the hospital's division at the fund.
According to the complaint, Dr. Ariel's conduct is "unprofessional to the point of indifference to harm to patients and the work of hospital wards."
Rosenbaum also complained about "promoting appointments at the hospital clinic in a manner that ostensibly amounts to discrimination, and providing benefits to patients from his private clinic." "I have seen the patients for years, and the first time he set foot in the ward was when his private patient came to the hospital."
According to the documents submitted to the court, the disciplinary proceedings against Ariel have not taken place to date, after a confrontation developed between Rosenbaum and the doctors' committee.
Advocate Ofer Doron responded to Dr. Ariel's response: "During my 20 years of work at the hospital, the previous and current hospital management has blocked my efforts to obtain the minimum manpower and infrastructure necessary for the Lung Institute to provide service at the standards I believe in, and "However, over the years, no real claims have been made regarding the quality of the treatment. The personal allegations made against me are not true."
Israel Today asked for detailed responses from Clalit's directors and the management of the Valley Hospital, and asked how the serious complaints of the doctors and the doctors at the hospital were examined, and whether the difficult cases were reported to the Ministry of Health and the police.
However, the general management stated only that "the response letter is detailed and speaks for itself," and the valley management stated only that "these issues are clarified in the legal proceedings."
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