Gamzu on the death of a 47-year-old corona patient: “ I take my responsibilities ”

“It is my responsibility to provide quality medical care, and this Friday evening we did not succeed,” said Professor Ronni Gamzu, director of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center. “I take responsibility.”

As a result, the medical center has reduced its general care beds to add more staff to its coronavirus units.

Gamzu told KAN Radio he would “do his best to visit the family and offer a personal explanation.” He said he had already gone to visit and reinforce his own staff over the weekend.

“It’s very complex,” he said on the radio. “Such a thing should not happen and we will all learn a lesson. I won’t lie – the heavy workload is taking its toll.

Israeli hospitals have exploded at their seams in recent weeks, opening additional coronavirus units as the daily number of patients continues to rise.

As of Sunday morning, nearly 2,000 people were being treated in Israeli hospitals, including more than 1,200 in serious condition. Some 272 have been intubated.

“You always have to make sure that someone is watching you,” Gamzu admitted. He said this “medical dysfunction” resulted in loss of life which he deeply regrets.

“I immediately thought that as the director of the hospital, I was wrong,” he added. “At every moment, difficult decisions must be made.”

He added that if a family member were to sit next to the patient something like this would not happen, but in the age of coronavirus “it is not practical”.

Harazy leaves behind a wife and five children.