The Emek Medical Center Development Fund today (Monday) turned to MK Nir Barkat and asked him to donate his salary to the hospital, following the publication of "Israel Today" that Barkat refused to receive a salary accumulated for a debt of about two million shekels and that he intends to submit a bill that will prevent The duty of a Member of Knesset to take a salary.
The director of the Valley Medical Center Development Fund, Adv. Murad Mifraa, sent a letter to Barkat in which he wrote: The blessing and complexity of the employees of the Valley Medical Center for the benefit of the entire population. "
At the end of the letter, Adv. Mifra detailed the challenges facing the Friends Association: renovation and expansion of the emergency medicine department (emergency rooms), copying and expanding the units for respiratory intensive care, adjusting and installing a Pet-City device (currently traveling patients to perform these tests in Haifa and / or Tel Aviv ), Purchase of advanced equipment for the operating rooms.
This announcement comes against the background of the harsh allegations made about the discrimination, neglect and attempts to silence the hospital, which is used by one million residents of the valleys and the Galilee and was exposed in "Israel Today" by journalist Ran Reznik.
For example, about three weeks ago, dozens demonstrated in the square in Afula against the ongoing discrimination, discrimination and neglect of the Valley Hospital. Regev.
According to the association's announcement, the move was made because it was among the speakers at the demonstration.
Last April, a heart surgery unit was established.
It turned out that this unit includes only a director selected for the position, Dr. Roni Ben Avi, and it operates within the surgical department without allocating and budgeted beds, nurses, secretaries and operating rooms, and without the Ministry of Health and Clalit Health Fund having previously recognized and approved the department and staff. According to senior doctors at the hospital, this is detrimental to patients scheduled to undergo breast surgery and also to all patients scheduled for surgery, some of whom have had essential and planned surgeries planned for them in recent weeks canceled and postponed.
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