Against the background of complaints about difficulties in making an appointment - people aged 60 and over will be vaccinated • Katya: "Does not like injections, but neither do soul machines"
The real test will begin this morning (Monday):
people aged 60 and over are expected to flock to HMO clinics to get vaccinated against Corona.
However, the United and National HMOs have already started vaccinating a few insureds in this age group yesterday, mainly to make the best use of the vaccine inventory.
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Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has ordered the establishment of 12 immunization centers that will serve the insured of all the health funds.
These will operate from today in Nahariya, Kiryat Gat, Carmiel, Eilat, Beit Shemesh, Dimona, Arad, Safed, Kiryat Shmona, Shefar'am, Sderot and Umm al-Fahm.
Edelstein agreed last night with the directors of the health funds to strengthen the treatment in the centers, in order to deal with the demand.
We will overcome them, "he promised. The Ministry of Health insisted that there would be no shortage of vaccines.
"Is that how you prepare?"
The insured and the funds are facing a huge load on the hotspots, and many citizens were outraged yesterday that the elected representatives of the public and medicine were vaccinated, while they themselves were unable to make an appointment.
Many reports that reached the "Israel Today" system indicate that many inquiries to the HMOs in recent days through the various centers have been in vain.
According to the evidence that reached us, telephone calls were cut off in the middle and sometimes it was not possible to call at all to make appointments.
Citizens also complained about the lack of communication on the Facebook pages of the funds.
One of the women wrote to the Clalit website on Facebook and said: "I am not even able to contact you through here."
Another surfer wrote: "This is how they are organized? Why are there no more queues? Why did they hang up for three hours without even a dialer? Are you the Israeli government? Want to be? They messed up big and you continue. This is not how you build a wall Let her manage the crisis. "
Many citizens, members of the fund, also complained on Maccabi's Facebook page.
At the box office, they tried, in response, to politely fend off the complaints, and ask for the complainants' understanding.
"Happy and excited"
Adam Weinberg, 65, from Netanya, will be vaccinated at the Clalit branch in the Sharon district.
"I'm not excited about the vaccine," he declares gracefully of a hero child.
"I'm going to get vaccinated because I think it will help me on a personal level and help the whole country and the whole world. I do not see any risk in that. Now start talking about the mutation of the virus and I hope the vaccine will be effective against the mutation as well. "If I could get vaccinated before, I would get vaccinated. I have one grandchild and the vaccine will also allow me to meet him."
Ricky Steiner-Yogev, 68, from Jerusalem, "I am very happy and excited for the vaccine. I did not think this vaccine would come so quickly. I suffered greatly from social distance, away from children, grandchildren and friends. I was kept for a long time and when we met it was just outside. Among the first to be vaccinated against polio. "
Katya Kam is in her 70s, and her husband Ren is a decade older than her.
Although their residence in the pastoral village of Bialik allowed them to see their grandchildren from a distance, today their solemn countdown to hugs and kisses that they have avoided for ten months and missed most of all will begin.
After lengthy deliberations and consultations with their doctors, this afternoon they will report to the Clalit Zevulun Health Insurance Clinic and be vaccinated against corona.
"The grandchildren were used to jumping on us and hugging us and suddenly this year all this was withheld from us. I remember that and tears well up in me again," describes Kam.
"I'm not a fan of shots, but I'm much less a fan of soul instruments."
Participated in the preparation of the article: Meital Yasur Beit-Or, Assaf Golan, Yaron Doron, Yuri Yalon and Adi Hashmonai