David Chesterman, brother of an IDF soldier wounded in Lebanon and hospitalized at Rambam Medical Center, alleged Sunday evening that Arabic-speaking staff locked the family out of the ward and left his brother unattended. Chesterman said he broke the door open after hours and found his brother asking for help with no one responding.
David Chesterman, brother of an IDF soldier wounded in Lebanon and hospitalized at Rambam Medical Center, alleged Sunday evening that hospital staff locked the family out of the ward and left his brother unattended, begging for help. According to Chesterman's account, the family was locked out of the ward for several hours. When he forced the door open, he found his brother in distress, asking for assistance and receiving no response. 'He was asking for help and no one was paying attention to him,' Chesterman said. The family has called for an investigation into the incident. The allegations come amid ongoing scrutiny of the treatment of wounded soldiers at Rambam, following a similar account earlier Sunday from Yehoshua Shani, whose nephew Eitan, also a wounded soldier, was reportedly left unattended by staff. The hospital has not yet commented on the latest allegations. The circumstances of the soldier's injury and the exact timeline of events remain unclear.
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