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Israel's Health Ministry wants to transfer responsibility for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) from private hospitals, which have several times been negligent, to public hospitals.
In recent years, there has been a sharp increase in the number of IVF treatments in privately owned medical institutions, the ministry said on Monday. “This increase raised the need to increase and ensure the mechanisms required to maintain the quality and safety of treatment in this system, and in particular in the issues of ensuring working conditions, personnel status and appropriate infrastructures.”
In addition to and following a number of processes and discussions in the ministry that began even before the recent exceptional cases that occurred in the two IVF units in Assuta’s private medical centers, ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman Tov has now appointed a team to examine the IVF system and formulate the necessary policy measures.
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IVF treatments, most of them paid for by the four health funds, have supplied private hospitals with considerable income.
The ministry contacted the managers of the IVF units in all...
