Deputy Health Minister fires Abu Kabir chief pathologist Yehuda Hiss
Move follows allegations of gross mismanagement at forensic lab, including misplaced body parts and tissue.
By Dan Even | Oct.16, 2012 | 1:49 AM
Over the past decade, Hiss was involved in a series of embarrassing incidents. Last April, Abu Kabir launched a project to bury tissue samples remaining from autopsies at the institute, and this initiative, exposed in an investigative report released by Yedioth Ahronoth, stirred consternation among relatives of the deceased persons. The burial project involved tissue samples and organs of deceased persons that had been stored in some 8,000 jars at Abu Kabir between 2000 and 2011.
A month after this tissue burial program was disclosed, it was established that tissue fragments taken from an infant, Ron Eisen, remained at Abu Kabir. Dennis Eisen was convicted of killing his baby son, Ron, and was sentenced to six years in prison; after Dennis Eisen demanded a retrial, Hiss testified that no tissue fragments from Ron remained at the forensic institute. Hiss later said that this mistaken statement resulted from a "regrettable human error."
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