Cancer patients' outcry at Wolfson Hospital:
Patients at the Oncology Institute at Wolfson Hospital and their families demonstrated this morning at the main entrance to Wolfson Hospital in Holon. Death to patients! "
At the same time, dozens of cancer patients treated at the Oncology Institute at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon wrote an urgent letter to the hospital's director, Dr. Anat Engel, and to the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash.
Demonstration of patients against the closure of the Oncology Institute, Photo: Uri Yoels
A letter sent by Adv. Eitan Glick on behalf of the patients states, among other things: "R. Brenner, is an institute known for treatment and medical thinking 'outside the box', which operates with uncompromising professionalism and a high level of service" ... "Strange moves have led to a crisis situation at the institute, when the hospital management does not prevent the situation from deteriorating, "Consistently ignores the warnings and perhaps even accelerates, for unclear reasons, the dangerous processes for the future of the institute," it was written.
"My client recently learned that the hospital's management is considering transferring their treatment to other medical centers.
My client will do everything in his power to prevent such a move and will act in every way possible to maintain the function of the institute under the management of Dr. Brenner ... My client does not understand how and why the Ministry of Health stands by and does not intervene immediately and decisively to stop the processes ".
Finally, patients make a clear demand to the hospital director and the director general of the Ministry of Health, "to intervene and stop any move of change, relocation, dismissal, or any other move that would harm the institute's activities and care for patients, including keeping Dr. Brenner in office He will continue to treat patients and allow him a professional and administrative envelope, to provide the maximum care they deserve to receive. "
As you may recall, in recent weeks, following the exposures in "Israel Today", all the ward nurses at the Oncology Institute have left their jobs without prior notice.
The nurses were abandoned due to allegations about the attitude and behavior of the institute's director, Dr. Ronen Brenner, and at the same time very harsh allegations were made in Israel Today that the hospital's management, Dr. Anat Engel and the Ministry of Health have consistently ignored warnings and complaints for months. Severe to severe impairment in medical treatment of cancer patients.
The hospital has a shortage of hospital beds that causes patients to receive chemotherapy treatments in the hallway, and there is a shortage of nursing and administrative staff at the institute that treats about 8,000 cancer patients a year.
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