High Court rejects petition of Hadassah parents demanding new pediatric cancer ward

The High Court of Justice rejects a petition filed by parents of Hadassah Hospital’s pediatric cancer patients demanding the court approve the opening of a new hemato-oncology department at a rival Jerusalem hospital.

The court sides with the Health Ministry who last month said it would not channel public funds into opening another cancer department at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center when the necessary infrastructure already exists at Hadassah.

Over the last several months, six doctors resigned from Hadassah’s pediatric hemato-oncology unit over a management decision they said was medically unacceptable.

In the wake of the resignations, the hospital management, doctors and the parents of Hadassah’s pediatric cancer patients have been locked in a crisis, trading accusations and counter-accusations.