Their place: Ministry of Health refuses to accept 450 graduates • "Why not let us help?" • Ministry: "No certification tests passed in Israel"

While more than 3,000 medical and nursing staff are in isolation and in anticipation of the anticipated rush to the health care system, the Ministry of Health refuses to absorb 450 medical graduates from abroad, some of whom have even completed internships.

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Just recently, the firm issued a call for medical and nursing staff not employed in the health care system to enlist and assist, and even assigned 900 standards to that end. Temporary approval is also given to work in the health care system for nursing graduates whose certification test was rejected because of the corona.

But while even veterinary nursing students are called to learn how to operate respiratory devices and join the system in the face of the acute crisis - hundreds of doctors, medical school graduates, are not approved.

More than 450 medical graduates from abroad recently applied to the Ministry of Health to obtain a temporary permit to work in the health system, to help deal with the severe manpower shortages in Israel in the wake of the Corona crisis. The applicants are seeking temporary work permit, similar to the approval of the Ministry of Health for medical graduates. Israel and graduates of the nursing profession. So far, the Ministry of Health has not yet responded to the application. All applicants have completed six years of medical studies. Some have completed an internship abroad and are awaiting a licensing exam in Israel, which was canceled due to the outbreak of the corona epidemic.

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Last week, the Ministry of Health announced the allocation of 900 new standards designed for graduates and graduates of nursing studies from Israel and abroad.

Against this backdrop, the Human Rights Doctors turned to the Ministry of Health this weekend to allow the integration of foreign graduates into the national struggle with the epidemic. "Medical graduates from Israel and abroad are in the same situation - have completed six years of medical studies and are eligible to take the exams," Hadas said. Ziv, director of ethics at the Physicians for Human Rights Association.

The Ministry of Health said that "Passing the state licensing exam in Israel is a necessary condition for obtaining a license to practice medicine for students abroad, in order to ensure conformity with the standards used in Israel. At this stage, there is no justification for recruiting overseas graduates. If necessary, we will reconsider it. "