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Last update - 23:16 28/11/2006 Health Ministry slammed for granting medical degree to sex offender By Relly Sa'ar, Haaretz Correspondent Tel Aviv District court attacked the health ministry for granting a medical degree to a convicted sex offender who did not verifiably his courses. The man was permitted to take the medical board exams required for a license and was issued an official certification, two years after being indicted for sex crimes. Justice Shelley Timan ordered Health Ministry Director-General Avi Israeli along with the State Prosecutor's Office to review the case carefully and to draw conclusions in the "organizational, consequential, and criminal" aspects of the affair. He also ordered all findings reported to the court. Advertisement Timan wrote in her ruling convicting the man two weeks ago, "I am concerned and disturbed by the fact that the defendant passed the certification exams, according to him, after failing them time and again. I am concerned with the unbearable lightness with which the health ministry licenses people to practice medicine." The man was convicted a number of sexual crimes, including molesting two minors suffering from cerebral palsy. Pedophilic material was also found on his personal computer. Timan described the man as a "sickening serial sex criminal whose delight in children fills his life. He's an uncontrollable liar who cannot be believed." During the trial it emerged that the offender had received certification as a public servant in 2005, two years after his indictment. The certificate stated that - based on documents that the man had presented the ministry saying he had completed medical studies in Moldova - he was granted a medical degree and would be permitted to take the licensing exams. However, the man never claimed that he had completed his medical studies and in fact studied in Novosibirsk, Russia, not in Moldova. Doctors who emigrate from foreign countries must pass an exam sponsored by the health ministry in order to receive a license to practice medicine in Israel. Haaretz discovered that the man passed the exams after he was indicted. Timan wrote in the verdict "I wonder if the health ministry verifies foreign credentials, if it verifies whether this or that medical school even exists and whether the applicant actually completed the requirements for a degree, especially when human lives are eventually placed in the hands of these individuals." According to Timan, the health ministry should have rescinded the offender's status and halted his certification as soon as the investigation against him began and he was indicted for a crime Bookmark to del.icio.us   A staunch ally Obama to AIPAC: I'll do everything to prevent Iran from obtaining nukes. Pro-Israel Nazis German group condemns anti-Semitism, says Holocaust 'unjustifiable.'   1.   Why not ? 00:45  |  Yankelowitz 29/11/06   2.   How idiotic 02:11  |  Happened to Notice 29/11/06   3.   Why not the Presidents is a sex offender 06:46  |  SJ 29/11/06   4.   EDITING/FACTS HAARETZ 10:15  |  john 29/11/06   5.   Shelley Timan is He not She 11:37  |  vonez 05/06/08

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