Rehovot's Kaplan Hospital Officials to be Indicted for illegal Experimentation on Elderly Patients

Police will recommend indicting senior officials at Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera and Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot for allegedly performing illegal experiments on elderly patients under their care, police sources said yesterday. Four of the officials, including Dr. Shmuel Levy, deputy director of Kaplan-Hartzfeld, were arrested last October following a complaint by the Health Ministry concerning alleged immoral and illegal experiments on elderly patients. In one experiment concerning the effects of psychiatric medications on the appetites of geriatric patients, 12 of the 41 participants died.

Source: Yuval Azoulay. News in brief. Haaretz.com (29 April 2007) [FullText]