Health Ministry closes clinic for defective IVF treatment

• Published date: 02 April 2024
• Author: DR. ITAY GAL
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Following new findings and additional evidence that arrived at the office, a surprise audit was conducted at the clinic that raised the fear of clear and immediate harm to public health

The Health Ministry stated, "We continue to examine the additional necessary steps in the matter, including examination of the involvement of additional parties, under the limitations of a criminal investigation. We will continue to efficiently prevent damage to public health, including the public of patients at the clinic."

Patients suffer from professor's negligence

Last week, the name of Prof. David Bider, an expert in surgery and gynecology who founded the L.B. clinic, and who is suspected of being involved in importing the defective eggs from Georgia, was released. As part of an undercover investigation that was conducted for several months in the fraud unit of the Tel Aviv district, investigative materials were accumulated against two senior medical professionals. The first is an embryologist, head of a department in one of the private hospital chains, and the second is a professor who owns a private clinic for in vitro fertilization and who performed serval...