The Ministry of Health is preparing for a particularly difficult scenario, given the steep rise in the number of patients in need of ventilation • The head of the medical division in the office: "There will be a number from which our preparation will no longer be useful" • Minister Naftali Bennett: "Formulate a protocol according to which doctors will choose who will receive the soul, and who will not"

"We need to prepare for a scenario in which we have 5,000 breaths. This means that all the beds in the hospitals in the State of Israel will be taken advantage of by the Corona patients. This is a difficult scenario, but the numbers today are even more targeted," - Dr. Vered Ezra, head The medical division of the Ministry of Health, the hospitals, and asked them to prepare accordingly.

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Ezra added: "It's a sleepy thing for me. It's a difficult scenario that I hope we will meet. You need to clear beds in the margins (geriatric hospitals, MI) for nursing corona patients. We are preparing as much as we can, probably we can address the worsening situation, however - there will be a number from which our preparations will no longer benefit. "

Dr. Ezra emphasized that the biggest problem is the number of patients who will need respirators. "The jump in the number of severely ill patients and the number of respirators is very disturbing to me. This can create a very heavy load on the system. Without being a mathematician, we see today's jump of 10 patients who have become difficult and breathless. It's a big leap. This is indicative of a trend. I talked to the model contracts, and those jumps are bothersome. This may bring the system to a standstill - we will not be able to deal with the amount that is greater than the number of beds in the State of Israel. Everything has to be done to reduce the number of patients. "

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The death toll in Israel today rose to 14 when a 94-year-old elderly woman with background illness died after contracting the virus. The hospital reported that she had pneumonia, had no corona signs, but as all pneumonia patients were examined, she was tested positive. "She was in serious condition and re-hospitalized and I'm not convinced she just passed away from Corona," said Professor Moti Ravid, director of the Salvation Hospital.

In doing so, the deceased joins the quorum of the corona now standing at 14. Mordechai Ben Michael, a 92-year-old with background illness, also died today at Shaare Zedek Hospital. There are 3,865 verified patients in Israel, 66 of whom are in serious condition, 54 are respiratory, and 82 are in moderate condition.

Doctors will stop: life or death

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, who today presented his national plan for the war in Corona, also addressed the issue of many respirators, and said he would have no choice but to write a protocol by which physicians would decide which patient would receive a respirator and which patient would not, or in other words - be left to die. "It's very difficult for me to write this, but it's probably necessary," Bennett wrote in his program.