Doctors fight the lack of protection for medical teams • The medical team is at the heart of the storm, any doctor who gets infected will weaken the ability to cope with the virus. "

• Hospital in Israel

After finding out that 949 doctors and doctors and 635 brothers and sisters are in isolation due to contact with Corona patients and due to return from abroad, the state medical organization "Melshinot" opens to doctors to report whether their protective equipment complies with the guidelines and provides protection to them. Patients report a lack of simple surgical masks that they are required to wear in any contact with a patient with respiratory illness.

Dr. Ze'ev Feldman, chairman of the State Physicians' Organization, sent all the doctors the protection guidelines and asked them to alert, through the committee heads, if they were required to work without adequate protection.

"We are in the midst of one of the biggest challenges facing the health system in Israel. The national, economic and, especially, health care due to the spread of the Corona virus affects all residents and residents of Israel," said Dr. Ze'ev Feldman. "We, the medical teams, are at the heart of the storm. Citizens and citizens of Israel expect us to provide them with the best possible medical care, and we expect the State of Israel to provide us with the equipment, protection, and of course the best professional guidance on how we should care for patients and patients while maintaining our safety. "

"We expect hospital administrators to take action to minimize staff exposure to pollution, both in selecting treatment sites and securing the necessary protective equipment inventory. We expect the Ministry of Health to monitor hospitals and make sure they are the way things are."

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Dr. Feldman added that "in the shortage of physician standards, in the difficult workload we are working on, any physician infected with the Corona crisis will weaken Israel's ability to cope best with the virus and current health care needs of Israeli residents who do not stop even during these corona days." .

Last week, the home of the isolationist Dr. Avi Urbani, the Sheba emergency manager, joined another 18 doctors and doctors in the ER and about 11 brothers and sisters. This was after a doctor working in the department, who returned from France, contracted Corona during his stay abroad. The doctor managed to work two shifts in the ER, and then the isolation guidelines came into effect. Patients treated directly by him were personally updated.

In Assuta, the soldier's level also had to reduce several surgeries, after 28 nurses were exposed to a nurse in a management position diagnosed as a corona patient. The sick nurse was not in contact with patients.

At Ichilov Hospital, 16 staff members are hospitalized following contact with a patient who was subsequently diagnosed as a Corona patient (patient 71) and initially treated as a "regular" patient in the ER. The same is true in Blinson, where eight crew members are isolated under similar circumstances and so is Soroka. The Ministry of Health did not respond to "Israel Today" for data on the number of doctors and hospital doctors who are in isolation following contact with patients.

Last Thursday, the Ministry of Health circulated new protective guidelines for doctors. According to the guidelines, in any case where a patient arrives with a respiratory illness, doctors should protect and protect the patient in a surgical mask. This is "due to the possibility of being exposed to a Corona patient without being identified as a suspect."

According to the instructions signed by Prof. Itamar Grotto, Deputy Director-General of the Ministry of Health, even if it turns out that the patient is indeed ill in Corona, the staff member will not need isolation. The new guideline signed by Prof. Grotto was distributed to the medical directors at all health funds.