The organization's involvement greatly promoted Israel's success in reducing the epidemic's size • Its involvement must be closely monitored, but it must be renewed • Interpretation

According to the Ministry of Health's internal data, in order to conduct coronary patients' investigations to locate anyone who is near or in contact with them (the epidemiological investigations), the Ministry of Health urgently needs an additional 273 employees in the seven provincial health bureaus to conduct a month, at least Another 6,500 investigations of Corona patients. This is in addition to only about 1,260 investigations that can carry out 27 public health nurses each month, who believe in epidemiological investigations in the health bureaus.

Director General of the Ministry of Health yesterday: "Where the outline seems unsaved, we may go back" // Photo: Yoni Rickner

According to these figures, the shortage of power in this area is very severe in all regions of the country, and especially as expected in the health bureaus that are responsible for the areas where the corona spreads most severely: in Jerusalem, southern and Tel Aviv, including Bnei Brak. These figures, which are first revealed here, reinforce the previous exposure on Friday in "Israel Today" to the very worrying shortage of nurses conducting corona patient investigations.

Unbearable burden on the nurses

The unbearable burden on public health nurses (a week ago the Corona Committee warned Knesset Professor Sigal Sadecki, head of public health at the Ministry of Health, which nurses are literally under the burden) has been known to the Ministry of Health for months, and has been the result of the Ministry of Health's ongoing injury for many years These are essential. However, even if the Ministry of Health quickly recruits hundreds of medical or nursing students to do this vital work, it will not be a quick and effective solution to these vital investigations, which are one of the key efforts to curb and reduce the spread of corona.

That is why Health Minister Yuli Edelstein's demand is now urgently required to return GSS training to assist the national effort to eradicate the epidemic. GSS involvement in the field has so far greatly promoted Israel's success in reducing the epidemic, and now there is no substitute for it. It goes without saying that the ISA's involvement must be closely monitored by the Knesset and the court, but it must be renewed in the national and global emergency we are in.

And not only the ISA is obliged to return to the Corona fight, but also to the Home Front Command, which has done vital, necessary and good work in operating the hotels for Corona patients and isolates returning from abroad (although lessons have to be learned from the harsh complaints of those staying in these hotels) and assistance to nursing homes and institutions. Nursing staff, some of whom are having difficulty coping with the corona to date, and some are experiencing new patient and employee infections every day.

Monitor nursing homes

According to the Ministry of Health, almost half of the 300 people who died in the Corona in Israel were residents of nursing homes and nursing homes, and there is no doubt that the health and welfare offices have failed miserably in the care of these institutions, and some of these institutions have acted horribly. 

There is now an urgent need to further accelerate the oversight, control and assistance of government ministries to these institutions and restore the Home Front Command to assist them regularly and regularly. The decision to terminate the Home Front Command was very wrong, and so far no satisfactory explanation has been given to it. The return of the IDF to the Corona fight, as well as the return of MDA's assistance in carrying out the mass tests to Corona alongside the health funds, could significantly improve our response to the Corona spreading in Israel again and could ignite a deadly second wave of the epidemic.