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Man lying in a hospital bed at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem [illustrative].. (Photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)

The Health Ministry is working on ensuring that the medical care at Hadassah University Medical Center is at its apex.

Arnon Afek, director-general Professor of the Health Ministry, claimed that the medical care at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem was “good” the past month.

Afek stated, however, that the Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) “is a voluntary organization and not owned by the ministry, so [the ministry] cannot decide who is its director-general.”

The Hadassah Medical Organization has been suffering from employee displeasure, bad headlines, resignations of senior physicians, andlawsuits, as it carries out a painful recovery program. The only problem is that there is no decision on who the director for the HMO is, and therefore, no decision on the beneficial and cautious measures needed to ensure proper medical treatment.

Afek told The Jerusalem Post this past Sunday that he constantly deals with this problem, including his decision to stop organ transplants at Hadassah University Medical Center for a month.

“But we can’t dictate who runs HMO,” Afek stated regarding his close contact with Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, which owns the HMO.

He said the ministry wants to make sure that the medical treatment is satisfactory and HMO is carrying out its commitments in the recovery program. The recovery program included the dispute between management and Hadassah doctors, over whether or not the dismissal of physicians should be part of it along with the function of the organ transplant unit, which allegedly endangered patients.

As a result of the conflict, a surgeon that was assigned to perform a kidney transplant on a teenage girl said that he has “less experience in transplants in recent years.” He also said that the girl’s “condition deteriorated.”

Racheli Goldblatt, Hadassah spokeswoman, said that acting HMO director-general Professor Tamar Peretz consulted with Prof. Eitan Mor at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson campus who advised changes in treatment. So far, the girl underwent another operation and is now improving.

Yet, it is unclear about the decision of the director-general and his/her status.

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