Lanyado patients oppose the establishment of an isolated complex for Corona patients instead of a unit for hematologic patients: "Death sentence" • Laniado: "Emergency Controller includes area clearance"

Laniado Hospital patients oppose opening a secluded compound for Corona patients instead of a unit for hematologic patients. Patients were also told to look for other hospitals instead. Today, patients will protest against the department's move, calling it "cancer patients' lives cannot be sacrificed for the future potential of Corona patients."

Preparation of a new isolation department for the admission of Corona patients at Rambam Hospital // Credit: Rambam Medical College

This past weekend and today, many more hospitals will be ready to receive Corona patients. Among other things, there are preparations for the absorption of patients in Beilinson, Soroka, Rambam, Ichilov, Hadassah Ein Kerem, Shaare Zedek, Wolfson, Barzilai Poria and more.

"It's a crazy decision. We are organizing a demonstration at the entrance to the hospital. The patients will also physically refuse to be evacuated if the decision is not changed," says Giora Sharf, a leukemia patient and founding director of the Israel Air Force's Light for Blood Cancer Patients. Closing the Hematology Department at Laniado Bar Hospital for the establishment of an isolated compound for future Corona patients. There is no logic and reason for sentencing death sentences on meto-oncology patients for the benefit of possible corona patients. "

Prof. Moshe Mittelman, chairman of the Israeli Society of Hematology: "I am concerned that the transfer of hospitalized patients from hematology to the department of internal medicine is not in line with optimal medicine as we promise to our patients."

Melaniado said the "Emergency Controller of the hospital approved by the Ministry of Health professionals in 2017 and has been practiced several times since, including evacuation of hospital grounds for the outbreak department."

In the meantime, Dr. Ehud Dodson, General Manager, addressed the preparation for the absorption of Corona patients. "Eight general hospitals have been placed and prepared to prepare a special corona patient care unit," says Dr. Dodson. "In our two hospitals, Bilinson and Meir, there is one corona patient. As long as the numbers of the patients are small, they will be hospitalized in rooms with negative air pressure that prevents air from the virus from exiting. "

The general insures half of Israel's population and currently handles thousands of home isolators. "According to the Ministry of Health's guidelines, we call every two days for every general insurer who is in isolation and also document it in the computerized medical record. We have also expanded our online services."