Two Health Ministry officials have led us to global achievement in Corona's fight • Saddecki's resignation letter should be received as a resounding warning • Opinion

• Prof. Stsadecki and Moshe Bar are a good sign

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  Gideon Markovich

Now that Prof. Sigal Satsadecki has announced her departure as "the central role I took in managing the spread and containment of the Corona epidemic in Israel", it can be said that her excellent work with Moshe Bar Seaman, while serving as Health Ministry Director General, has managed to bring Israel to health and strategic achievements. Very good on a global scale.

Achievements that were manifested in reducing the size of the corona's spread and reducing the fatal injury of the pandemic that could still be dozens dead every day, as Sadecki warned yesterday.

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We are thanked for this by thanking Saskadaki who, as she wrote, "has invested all her abilities for the State of Israel and its citizens and plays a significant role in the forefront of the Corona struggle at critical moments for Israel and its citizens" - even if her work has, as she puts it, "a personal, health and physical cost" . And it is true that now the Ministry of Health has or will find substitutes for a good mark and Prof. Satsadaki, but in the meantime they have no substitute for the courage, determination, professionalism, ability and success to persuade the government and the public of the existential necessity they took, as hard as they could, to try The dimensions of the epidemic which is "deadly, cunning and agile" and the most menacing humanity has known in decades.

Most of the serious medical experts, not a handful of charlatan doctors and administrators who mislead and endanger the public as if "the corona is just the flu," and Prof. Satsadecki once again alerted the Health Ministry with the end of the Corona's first wave that the education and economy could return too quickly To bring about a steep and dangerous rise of the sick and infected in Corona. They also warned that illusions should not be erased that the Corona would disappear as summer comes in Israel and around the world.

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However, Sadecki first and foremost reveals in her letter that despite and contrary to the warnings, the government has taken a series of swift and sweeping steps that have brought too fast, irresponsible and dangerous returns to the routine of the economy, economy and schools without sufficient restrictions and almost no control and much faster and more dangerous pace than Western countries. Most of these hasty and reckless measures were already shared by the new heads of the Ministry of Health, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and the office's CEO, Prof. Hezi Levy, who were quick to give the public the feeling that - unlike their predecessors Moshe Bar Seaman and Yaakov Litzman - they would not interfere with the public and allow him to return to the long-awaited routine. But it turned out very quickly that these were false promises and dangerous illusions that were circulated by Edelstein and Levy that could now cost the country and all of us dearly.

A resounding warning 

Sadecki's resignation letter must be accepted by all of us (the heads of the Ministry of Health, the public, the journalists) as a stern warning and echoing the results of the health ministry's repeated warnings against reckless measures, but the top of the Ministry of Health and the government prefers to ignore their warnings and as a result, Israel loses its security In Corona. And now, unfortunately, "It's been a few weeks since the epidemic of compassion has lost its direction and despite systematic and regular warnings in the various systems we are watching the frustration of the opportunity's hourglass."

Health Minister Edelstein and Director-General of the Ministry of Health Prof. Levi must memorize the harsh warnings and lessons learned from Sadecki's letter (along with her self-criticism of the Corona patients' examinations and investigations) so that we will not all march together to a "dangerous place" as it returns and warns For the serious mistakes once again.