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| By: israelinsider staff |
| Published: March 26, 2007 |
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The Ziv Hospital in Safed was hit by rockets during the Second Lebanon War, yet the Heath Ministry won't include the hospital in a plan to reinforce northern medical buildings against rocket attacks. The state will, however, pay millions to better protect the Knesset.
The Friends Association of the Ziv Hospital is therefore petitioning the High Court of Justice for its failure to protect the northern state hospital, chairman of the association Meir Moskovich said Sunday.
"This is a scandal, after this hospital treated 800 soldiers - more than Rambam Medical Center and Western Galilee Government Hospital in Nahariya combined - during the war, and is within range of fire," stated Moskovich. "The government has abandoned its responsibility for protecting Ziv Hospital."
"We went without protection in the last war," stated Ziv Hospital director-general Dr. Oscar Embon, "and apparently we will have to do so in the next war as well."
Moskovich also slammed the government's general hospital reinforcement plan, charging that it doesn't include ensuring underground or otherwise safe areas for ICUs or operating theatres.
Moskovich continued, arguing that the Knesset "worries about its own security in Jerusalem and will spend NIS 6 million to fortify the roof over the plenum, but the medical center that takes in soldiers from the North and Galilee residents has to go without." |
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