Following the exposure in "Israel Today":
More than 700 citizens have so far signed the petition calling on the management of Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem to return Prof. Jose Cohen to full employment, as the hospital's main brain catheter.
As we reported this week, the Hadassah Department of Brain Surgery recently experienced an extreme managerial and medical crisis, after Prof. Cohen, director of the brain catheterization unit in the neurosurgical department and the only cerebral catheter in the hospital, was confiscated and removed from the department.
The director of the department, Prof. Yigal Shoshan, even banned him from catheterizing and hospitalizing in the department non-urgent catheterization, which are the main part of his patients.
As a result, about 500 patients have not been treated so far or have moved to other hospitals in the last two months.
Senior doctors told Israel Today that there is a fear of harming the health of patients who could not receive the treatment from Prof. Cohen, who is considered one of the best brain catheters in Israel and in the world.
Rachel Yehezkel from Jerusalem, one of the patients, has already complained about this to Prof. Yoram Weiss, acting director of Hadassah Hospitals, and she initiated the petition on Tuesday - "An urgent request to allow Prof. Cohen to return to the hospital and catheterize patients who have not been admitted for more than two months "Medical treatment saves lives."
The petition states that "Prof. Cohen has faithfully and devotedly served the population of Jerusalem in particular and Israel in general for more than 21 years, and has been a soldier in the field of cerebral catheterization. Preventing the possibility of catheterization under his hands endangers patients and causes severe failure."
Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
"Terrible feeling"
Leah Binyamini, another patient of Prof. Cohen, says that "eight years ago I had a brain aneurysm, and it saved my life. Prof. Cohen is an example of humanity and caring, and it is a scandal that prevents him from catheterizing. Do not make war on the backs of patients."
Hannah Kamaf, who also underwent a catheterization with Prof. Cohen, is now disturbed: "In a month I need a follow-up catheterization, and I do not know what will happen. There are many more patients like me. Prof. Cohen is a lift doctor that every hospital will abduct, and I do not understand Hadassah is giving it up. "
Tal Sapir, whose husband's life was saved after being treated by Prof. Cohen, is also worried about the crisis at Hadassah Hospital.
It's a terrible feeling, "she tells Israel Today.
Hadassah said in response that "in the eyes of Hadassah's management is first and foremost the safety of patients and the quality care for them. Understanding that the atmosphere created in the ward may harm medical procedures, it was decided to reduce activity in the brain catheterization unit but of course approval for all life-saving activities."
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