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A group of senior doctors and department heads have filed serious complaints against Emek Medical Center in Afula.

The Clalit health fund is attempting to remove the director of the hospital from his position, while he claims that there illegal and unethical conduct at the hospital, the Israel Hayom newspaper reports.

The serious complaints arise from internal documents submitted a week ago to the Labor Court in Nazareth by the Clalit Health Fund, in response to a request submitted by the director of the hospital, Dr. Ziv Rosenbaum, against the attempt to fire him. Among the complaints: intubated patients falling out of beds, patients in intensive care in critical condition die due to lack of treatment, and unprofessional conduct to the point of indifference to harm to patients.

Rosenbaum claimed that the attempt to fire him was made, he said, "because I did not agree and did not meet the task of 'eliminating' the doctors' action committee, which includes department heads working against Emek's continuing discrimination and inequity, and the north in general."

Dr. Rosenbaum further claimed in his appeal that the attempt to fire him is "manifestly illegal, contrary to the values ​​and duties of a public body and was done while Clalit acted in extreme bad faith."

Clalit, on the other hand, argues in the court that the complaints and incidents at the hospital reflect his inability to manage the hospital properly. The court hearing is set for this morning. According to senior doctors, even before the court's decision is made, the cases that Clalit itself reveals to the court indicate the fund's management's responsibility for the hospital's difficult situation, and illustrate how unsuccessful the hospital's functioning is, and how much it could even endanger a million lives of Israelis in the north.