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IDF veteran Itzik Saidyan, who set himself alight outside a Defense Ministry office on April 12, 2021. (screenshot: Channel 12)
The hospital treating a former soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder who set himself alight last week reported a deterioration in his condition on Wednesday.
In a statement, Sheba Medical Center said Itzik Saidyan was in critical condition and that there was an immediate danger to his life.
Saidyan, 26, has been hospitalized since his self-immolation outside the Petah Tikva offices of the Rehabilitation Department for disabled soldiers, after years of struggling to receive the care he requested.
In response, Israeli politicians have vowed to improve the system and address the problems. Defense Minister Benny Gantz formed a new committee within the ministry to make recommendations and enact reforms, led by wounded IDF veteran Ziv Shilon who lost his left hand in battle in 2012.
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
Israeli veterans and disabled IDF soldiers protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv for better financial and medical aid, April 18, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
The director-general of the Defense Ministry on Sunday said his office was looking to advance significant reforms in how it treats wounded veterans, after one such former soldier lit himself on fire last week after years of struggling to receive the care he requested.
Amir Eshel, who has been in his position for nearly a year, acknowledged that his ministry had “failed” the veteran, Itzki Saidyan, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in the 2014 Gaza war. However, Eshel rebuffed criticism that his ministry had ignored the problems with the long-maligned Rehabilitation Department, maintaining that a number of proposals to address the issues had been raised, but the most recent round of elections prevented them from
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