The Health Ministry announced, Thursday, that it was establishing a panel to investigate the mistaken administration of chemotheraphy to a girl who did not have cancer.
The ministry said, in a statement, that it wants to get at the truth and learn from the case. It explainee, "An initialinvestigation conducted by the ministry foundthat this isa very complexcase.The twopathologistsat WolfsonandShebadidmany tests,deliberatedandconsultedtoarrive at a diagnosis. The Sheba [Medical] Center decided to sendthe biopsyfor consultationin the U.S. According to the preliminaryexaminationit did notseem to benegligencebut a verydifficultdiagnosis."