New autopsy surgeon: Dr. Chen Kugel • "deceased friendly"

About six months ago, Prof. Yehuda Hiss was dismissed by Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman following the tissue case, after tests revealed that the tissues of more than 8,000 bodies analyzed at the Institute before burial - were left inside the institute, without informing the family members of the dead.

Dr. Chen Kugel, Hiss's deputy until 2005, and is considered a big rival, was the one who filed the complaint to the state comptroller, who brought about the exposing of the tissues affair, and is appointed in his place.

Dr. Kugel established in recent years a medical advice Legal Institute called 'Madan'. After he realized that the forensic institute has only authority to the Israeli legal system, and families of the deceased cannot consult an alternative factor to get a different opinion and present it to the court.

"Very, very puzzling. An individual who a committee headed by a district judge ruled that he failed completely in terms of office and convicted in a plea bargain in a disciplinary puzzling things very severe - should have been removed not only legally, but for a moral issue management," said Dr. Kugel ago about three years ago, when it was learned that the table top earners include Hiss. "Such a man should not have to head the Legal Institute, and is not just that he was not deposed, and hair doesn’t fall from his head, but he is the head of the earning lists.

"I expected to get the first phone call from Zaka," said Dr. Kugel to Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, ZAKA chairman, who called to congratulate him on the appointment. According to Meshi Zahav, the struggle against the conduct of the Institute and privatization was a mutual struggle with Kugel, and for him it is a success.

Prof. Hiss was big fans of autopsy, according to him regular deaths should also be analyzed. If that were not enough, he analyzes the negative, from head to toe, instead of analyzing only the area for questioning.

In contrast, Dr. Kugel was a full partner to the introduction of a MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan executive non - invasive is used to illustrate the internal organs of the body without using x-rays, and in some cases eliminates and prevents autopsy degradation on the dead.

"Now the Institute of Forensic Medicine become friendly," says Meshi-Zahav, saying "the advent of Dr. Kugel as the Director of the Institute is completing the circle."

Ministry of Health welcomed the new manager. "We are grateful to Professor Yehuda Hiss, for the contribution of many years, we appreciate his contribution and wish him well," the statement said.

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!