Storm in health system following the unveiling of "Israel Today"

Difficult responses in the health system and a demand from the nurses to apologize from the author of the report. 

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The uproar following the "Israel Today" revelation from Wolfson Hospital's internal report that some of the respiratory corona patients treated at the Corona Department at the hospital died not because of their illness, but because of serious mistakes and serious omissions.

The exposure indicated ongoing failures made by nurses from an inpatient ward who were placed to care for corona patients despite being unskilled and inexperienced in treating difficult and respiratory patients.

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As revealed, an internal review of the treatment of patients coordinated by Dr. Arie Soroksky, Director of the General Hospital of the Wolfson, revealed difficult findings, and this is the first time that Israel has raised allegations that severe coronary patients have died not because of their illness but precisely because of their failed and negligent treatment. In a government hospital. 

The Corona patients at Wolfson were treated to a special department set up in mid-March under the management of a senior internal physician, where physicians and nurses from Internal Medicine D worked with physicians and nurses from the General Intensive Care Unit. 

In the first wave, about 120 patients were treated, of whom about 30 needed ventilation and about 21 died. Dr. Soroksky's unprecedented letter was forwarded to Wolfson Director Anat Engel in early June, and this week he was also forwarded to the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy and to Dr. Erez On, Head of the Hospital Division of the Ministry of Health. 

Following the unveiling, a furore ensued among hospital nurses in Israel and yesterday Ilana Cohen, chair of the Brothers and Sisters' Federation, told Dr. Soroksky that she demanded that he apologize to the brothers and sisters "who were at the forefront of care and war in Corona while risking their health and family health and some even paid heavy personal prices. ". 

Cohen also wrote that "everyone in this war went head to shoulder, brothers and sisters, doctors and doctors, the auxiliary forces and administration and the economy. The process of learning and producing lessons that are an integral part of the professional life of the health care system should be done responsibly, without impartiality, and in an objective and substantive manner." . The copy of the letter was sent to the administration of the Ministry of Health, to the director of Wolfson Hospital Dr. Engel and to Orna Zvi, Wolfson's head nurse.

According to Cohen's letter yesterday, Dr. Soroksky wrote to the nurses that he had contacted Wolfson's management to warn them that there were not enough ICUs and nurses who were inexperienced, and had not undergone appropriate training for working with severely ill patients. Themselves in such difficult conditions. I'm sorry from the bottom of my mind if any of the teams were hurt, the intention was to point out deficiencies and make changes, and unfortunately, the letter leaked to the media and we all look bad. "

In "Israel Today" it was further revealed that Soroksky warned that in his 25 years of intensive care, "I did not encounter any such mistakes, and their occurrence indicates a very poor skill and professionalism." Soroksky listed three shocking cases of respiratory corona patients who died because of very serious nurses' failures in the Corona Department: a patient who was strangled to death after being mistakenly nursed by a nurse, a patient who died of poor supervision after his respiratory tube was severed, and another patient who died after a nurse died. Her infusion and critical medication were needed, did not come to his body.

In response to a published article, the hospital said it was providing "the best and most dedicated care to patients, by highly skilled and professional staff. The letter was written as a personal, unqualified or established position, written as part of a self-monitoring process and without real-time reporting. Of course, lessons learned and constant learning are The way of life for all staff at Wolfson Medical Center and thanks to them we give the best care to patients with us. "