The reform in 2020 is intended to shorten the long queues at the child development institutes for children with autism and developmental delays. Walla's investigation reveals that, contrary to the Ministry of Health's commitments in an internal circular, the Ministry has been delaying for two years to publish the waiting times of the appointments at the health insurance funds.
The last time such data was published almost two years ago in May 2022. Even at the "Mauchedat" HMO, a child in need of a speech therapist or a developmental psychologist will have to wait about five months. The not-up-to-date data until May 2022 already show difficult data about a delay of about seven months from the moment the case is opened at "Kallit" Health funds also send the parents to the private sector because the health funds supposedly provide refunds as part of the "olution to the long waiting times at child development clinics' Walla: "The reform has collapsed, no one is accountable and the children and parents remain in a difficult situation"