Publication allowed: Arrested on suspicion of giving expired drugs to oncology patients at Rambam Hospital
in a joint announcement The police, the Ministry of Health and the Tax Authority were informed by Lai Fe - the news corporation:
Published: The police arrested 3 pharmacists and detained a doctor for questioning on the suspicion that they were involved in cases of giving expired oncology drugs to oncology patients at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The detention of the three pharmacists was extended this morning at the Acre Magistrate's Court.
Watch the arrest They are suspected of falsifying the validity of the medicines
Expired oncology drugs
The beginning of the investigation was complaints filed by the Ministry of Health and the local employee about two years ago, concerning the suspected administration of expired oncology drugs whose validity was extended to oncology patients at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa. The offenses continued for several years.
The police, through the fraud unit of the Coastal District, together with the Ministry of Health and the Tax Authority launched an intensive and complex investigation in order to collect evidence and arrive at the truth.
From the investigation, it was suspected that the dates and batch numbers of drugs that were transferred to the medical teams were falsified, as well as additional actions were performed on expired drugs, in order to hide their obsolescence and in order to deceive the production dates.

Many and varied offenses
Yesterday in the morning (Monday 20/12/21) investigators of the Fraud Division in Hoof district together with the enforcement unit of the Ministry of Health and the assessor investigating Haifa and the North, arrested two pharmacists (59 resident of Paki'in, 39 resident of Shafaram) and detained for questioning a doctor (38, Kiryat Bialik) employed at the Rambam Hospital. In addition, they arrested another suspect, the owner of a private pharmacy (52, Majd Al-Khrom) on suspicion of violations of the Pharmacy Law, forgery, negligent handling of medicines, receiving anything fraudulently, omitting income and keeping false account books on purpose and with the intention of evading Solvent and more.
In the searches conducted in the pharmacies and the owner's home, account books and documents were seized that link the suspects to the tax crimes.
At the request of the police, the arrest of the suspects was extended this morning at the Acre Magistrate's Court: a resident of Peki'in (59) and a resident of Shafaram (39) until Thursday, a resident of Majd al-Khorum (52) until Sunday.
The investigation continues.
Maimonides said:
Further to the announcement of the Hoof district - Rambam is accompanied in this matter by the civil attorney's office in Haifa and acts in accordance with its instructions. Naturally, Rambam is not involved in the investigative actions of the Israel Police - beyond responding to requests for the transfer of information and various details. We are prevented from expanding and commenting on the issue as long as the investigative and legal process is in progress.
It's called murder
shocking. Rambam Hospital is an indelible stain. It's interesting how many patients were murdered like that.
I don't understand the matter. The drugs were supposed to be given in the hospital, so what did the pharmacists get out of them forging expired donations? Did they save medicine for the Ministry of Health?
And what is the position of the doctor in the matter, she gave prescriptions for expired drugs? The story is strange.
what is strange They stole and sold on the black market valid drugs, which they received after reporting that they had thrown away expired drugs that they had given to patients in Rambam. shocking.
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Eyal - it is still not clear how they get out of profit? Who would buy such drugs without a prescription? It is financed by the health basket. The only explanation may be that the drugs were sold to the territories or to buyers from abroad or for the production of some kind of drugs.
What scoundrels, my husband was also treated there 3 years ago and passed away, and even then they gave expired medicines. These criminals should be put behind bars and all the victims who die there will file a class action lawsuit, it is impossible to put this on the agenda
If indeed they are found guilty, the punishment should be the permanent disqualification of the medical license and the pharmacy license in addition to compensation for the families of the patients.
I'm not surprised...
The fact that pharmacists marketed expired drugs is understandable. They profited from it. But what about the doctor who was actually arrested? Why did she cooperate with them? She was the one who should have stopped them.