The accelerated rise is very worrying • If the Ministry of Health and the government do not take appropriate steps - a serious default can occur here that will accompany the second wave • In addition, the ministry must improve public information transfer • In the meantime cracks in the public trust, which can cause increased spread • Interpretation

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  Yossi Seliger

The accelerated rise in contagion in Corona in Israel is very worrying, even if it was expected following the opening of the economy, schools, transport and more. The Corona National Information and Knowledge Center, jointly with the IDF and the Ministry of Health, made it clear yesterday (Saturday) that the severity of the situation was clear.

The Ministry of Health and Government must take urgent steps to prepare for the outbreak. These measures should apply the lessons learned from the previous outbreak, and they should have already been implemented. If the Ministry of Health fails to take them resolutely and urgently, and if the government does not back up and budget these measures, there may be a serious default here that will accompany the second wave.

On Tuesday, Israel Today revealed that the Ministry of Health admits that these days of such a difficult fight in Corona there is a critical shortage of 170 brothers and sisters in the public health bureaus. These should quickly and professionally carry out the investigations of the Corona patients to quickly insulate anyone who was near them and thus reduce, as far as possible, the spread of the epidemic. Following the announcement, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein was quick to announce that his office would rapidly increase manpower as early as the next week, but the severe shortage of manpower was known to the top of the ministry and is the result of years of public health drying.

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According to the ministry's data, nearly half of the 300 people who died in the Corona in Israel were residents of nursing homes and nursing homes. The health and welfare ministries have failed miserably in handling these institutions (some of the institutions' management has also acted poorly). Now there is an urgent need to further accelerate the oversight, control and assistance of government ministries to these institutions, and restore the Home Front Command to assist them.

Indeed, the day before, Prof. Nimrod Maimon, head of the Corona Ministry of Health's care home nursing program, submitted the recommendations of the "Gold Sheltered Housing" forum, which includes five networks of sheltered housing in Israel, in which 6,500 tenants live, according to the data in the document, Of them, it doesn't stick. According to the document, this significant achievement was made possible thanks to vigorous housing operations even before even the Ministry of Health guidelines were given, including, among other things, emergency work (continuous week) and entry of workers only after corona testing. These actions must also be taken in all nursing homes, in order to reduce the injury among the most vulnerable population of the disease.

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The Ministry of Health must also urgently improve information and public information, which are critical in the fight against epidemics and public mobilization to obey the Ministry's instructions. One week ago, for example, the National Information and Knowledge Center published hard information, adding that 30 new patients have been added since June, but all attempts to verify and verify this data from the Ministry of Health (including the Assistant Minister of Health, Prof. Sigal Satsdecki, Prof. Itamar Grotto and the office's spokesperson) were, disgracefully, ignored or casually and casually. And all this when it comes to basic and critical data on the spread of the epidemic, and as it does, alarming cracks in public health in the Ministry of Health are emerging, which could only increase the spread of the corona.