Representatives of the nurses are currently discussing with the representatives of the Ministry of Finance in order to prevent the strike in view of the lack of standards • The sanctions are expected to begin at 07:00 in the morning

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Strike in the health system: If there is no last-minute change, starting tomorrow (Monday) at 7:00 the brothers and sisters will stop working demanding more standards. At this time, the nurses' representatives are discussing with the finance representatives a last-minute effort to prevent the strike.

The strike, if and when it goes ahead, is due to a shortage of about 1,000 brothers and sisters in solitary confinement, along with the fact that about 1,500 brothers and sisters have been diverted from day-to-day work to reinforce the corona wards. 

If it is decided to hold the strike, it will be joined for two hours by specialized doctors who are active in organizing a prescription. Against the background of the strike, a three-month record was recorded in the number of corona inmates and record loads in the inpatient wards. 

As part of the strike, the outpatient clinics, institutes and day hospitals in the hospitals will not operate. The operating rooms will operate on a Saturday basis, with no surgeries in the afternoon (except for exceptions), and all inpatient wards will have a small staff working on a Saturday basis, as well as in the intensive care units. However, the corona wards will be fully staffed and corona inspections will continue to take place. Premature infants, delivery rooms, cancer patients and fertility units and dialysis will be operated by a small staff.

The nurses in the clinics will work on a Shabbat basis and the on-call nurses will provide only urgent treatments, including home treatments, insulin delivery, fertility treatments and cancer patients. Corona tests will work as usual.

At the "Drop of Milk" centers, there will be one-stop shifts in each city to respond to urgent cases. The nurses at the district health bureaus will sit, no vaccinations will be given at the vaccination clinics and no medical examinations will be performed. However, epidemiological investigations into corona patients will be fully conducted.

Yesterday morning a crucial meeting was held in a last-ditch attempt to avoid a strike. The meeting was attended by the Director General of Finance, the Turner-Eyal Foundation, and the chairman of the Ilana Cohen Brothers and Sisters Association. The meeting ended without progress, and no date was set for another meeting scheduled for the rest of the day. Until yesterday evening, no restraining orders had been issued for the strike by the Ministries of Health and Finance. 

"Enough with the excuses and enough with the talk - we need to give an immediate solution today, and stop allowing the abandonment of the patients and the brothers and sisters," the chairman of the Brothers and Sisters Association, Ilana Cohen, clarified at the meeting. The brothers and sisters.

The health care system lacks thousands of standards for nurses in hospitals, the community, and public health. In addition, the corona exacerbated the severe shortage, as about 1,000 nurses were sent to isolation due to exposure to corona patients and another 1,500 brothers and sisters were taken from the patients in the regular wards for the establishment of dozens of corona wards. "

As mentioned, the strike will be joined for two hours at 12-10 in the morning by specialist doctors from all the hospitals active in the "prescription" organization. "We will join the brothers 'and sisters' strike because this struggle is ours," said Dr. Ray Bitton, chairman of the Registry. "The departments are collapsing and the interns are collapsing along with them. This inhuman burden cannot continue to be imposed on us. "26 hours, which in any case are inhuman, but now many interns in isolation, there is no one to replace them and the remaining interns sometimes find themselves 10 shifts or more. It is unacceptable."

He added that "we cannot be allowed to fight this war like this. Standards must be assigned to hospitals immediately. We will hold a two-hour warning strike tomorrow, without harming patients. But if standards are not assigned, we will have to take more drastic measures."

In Meuhedet will a strike be avoided?

Meanwhile, the United Health Insurance Fund refused to approve nurses working at the health insurance fund to join the strike. In a letter sent by Dror Dean, VP of Human Resources, to the head nurse, it was stated that "according to the recently signed collective agreement, the nurses at the fund have a duty to avoid any strike or work disruptions."

In the Histadrut the brothers and sisters responded to the threat and said that “the brothers and sisters of the United Health Insurance Fund have the basic right to strike, especially when the purpose of these measures is to provide appropriate care to the patients.

"The conduct of the United Health Insurance Fund is puzzling, since to the best of our knowledge the severe shortage of brothers and sisters did not pass it by, hence the little the HMO could do, if not fully support the cries of the brothers and sisters, at least not try to silence them from their responsible and legitimate call, And the appropriate manpower to give patients a proper response. "