BYE BYE GAZA - Barry Chamish

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Hospital director: Letting Sharon go to Negev farm was
negligent
Several senior doctors raised a host of questions Thursday
about the standard of treatment Ariel Sharon has received
over the last two weeks, with the director of a large hospital
telling Haaretz that according to the media reports on
Sharon's medical treatment, he fears "there was
indescribable negligence."
The questions cover the period from Sharon's first stroke two
weeks ago to his arrival Wednesday night at Jerusalem's
Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, where he is being
treated for a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. They
pertain to the supervision over Sharon's physical state,
following the blood-thinning medicine he received after his
first hospitalization.
Such supervision is essential, as these medicines could
cause a cerebral hemorrhage, like the one Sharon suffered.
Questions were also raised about the dosage he received.
"Yitzhak Rabin was not wearing a bulletproof vest that could
have protected him from the murderers' bullets, and now, 10
years later, Sharon was not given the required medical
treatment that could have saved him," the hospital director
said. "Israel has not learned the lesson from Rabin's murder,
and thus lost two prime ministers because of inadequate
protection - one from weapons, the other from illness. I
cannot understand how the prime minister could have been
sent to stay in an isolated farm, more than an hour away
from the hospital he was supposed to be treated in, two
weeks after a stroke and one night before a heart procedure
he was afraid of."
Sharon was slated to undergo a cardiac catheterization
procedure Thursday to fix a small hole between the
chambers of his heart that doctors said contributed to his
initial stroke.