Dr. Michael Weintraub, spokesman for Hadassah Hospital
Palestinians Pull Patients from Israeli Hospitals -Ethan Bronner
The PA has stopped paying for scores of Palestinian patients being treated in Israeli hospitals.
Palestinians, whose children were being treated in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, say they have been instructed by Palestinian health officials to [move] the[ir children to] facilities in the West Bank, Jordan or Egypt.
"This is a political decision taken on the backs of patients," said Dr. Michael Weintraub [pictured above], director of pediatric hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Hadassah.
Dr. Weintraub said that "[t]here are no politics in our wards. Twenty percent of our patients are Palestinians, and we have one common enemy: cancer. The rest is immaterial."
(New York Times)
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