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Exclusive: The Ministry of Health terminated its contract with the operator of the "Voice of Health" center and left thousands of patients unanswered.
The reason: the lack of a budgetary source.
Ministry of Health: "Activities will resume during the week. We regret the mental anguish caused to patients and work to respond to the accumulated requests."
Roast Greenberg
26/01/2022
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 10:53 Updated: 11:02
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The cost of the bureaucracy in Israel: The patients were left unanswered, after the Ministry of Health ended its contract with the private operator of the 'Voice of Health' - the ministry's service center.
This is after the ministry did not find a budget source for its operation, even though its approved budget for 2022 is about NIS 44 billion, while the amount allocated to support the "Voice of Health" centers for 2021 was only about NIS 113.8 thousand.
The salary expenses of the ministry's employees, for the purpose of comparison, are expected to be about NIS 1.6 billion for 2022, according to data from the budget key of the workshop for public knowledge, and its procurement budget is about NIS 6.5 billion.
The Voice of Health Center began operating through a private company in early 2019, after the State Comptroller noted in his audit report on the ministry, among other things, the long waiting times of long cannabis patients for response from the Ministry of Health (Medical Cannabis Unit of the Ministry of Health). And the harm to their health created as a result.
These patients are one of the patient groups affected by the focus of inactivity, and are also considered one of the most severe patient groups, as it contains patients with incurable diseases, who do not respond to conventional drugs.
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Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz.
The health budget is about NIS 44 billion, but there is no money for the "Voice of Health" center (Photo: Reuven Castro, -)
The Ministry of Health regrets and promises to act "during the week"
The Ministry of Health 'Voice of Health' hotline was the only address for them to obtain or renew a license for medical cannabis possession, without which they could not start or continue to receive the medical treatment they required with the plant products.
It is estimated among medical factors in the medical cannabis market that the lack of activity of the center has left about 3,000 patients unanswered so far, and the number is expected to increase as the center continues to be shut down.
The Ministry of Health responded
: "The process of renewing the contract with Natali has ended these days, after the approval of the Accountant General in the Treasury as required.
In light of this, activate that discontinuation is about to resume during the current week.
We regret the mental anguish caused to the patients and are working to respond to requests that have accumulated immediately, with the renewal of the permit. "
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