Hospital representatives warn: "Rapid rise in morbidity in East Jerusalem could lead to insufficiency in the city's hospital system - there are only 40-30 more patients" • Since midnight, seven more corona patients have died, and 1,055 people have been diagnosed with the virus • Number of deaths Reached 576
"Hospitals could contain the current morbidity in the next two weeks, but the situation in the Jerusalem area is borderline: an accumulation of 30-40 more critical patients could bring the system in Jerusalem and the center of the country to the threshold" - a medical barometer report submitted by senior doctors to the corona commissioner Prof. Roni Gamzo.
Meanwhile, since midnight, seven more corona patients have died, and 1,055 people have been diagnosed as carriers of the virus. The death toll reached 576.
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One of the first steps Gamzo took was the appointment of representatives from hospitals who are supposed to alert him when hospitals are approaching insufficiency. The first report submitted by the hospitals shows a worrying picture, according to which in the Jerusalem area the hospitals are close to insufficiency. "In light of the considerable challenge and the heavy burden on the hospitals in Jerusalem, we are concerned about the rapid increase in morbidity in East Jerusalem. We recommend taking targeted measures to curb morbidity in this area, "the experts wrote, including Prof. Edith Matot of Ichilov, Dr. Itai Pesach of Sheba and Prof. Pierre Zing of Beilinson.
Experts point out that part of the burden on corona wards stems from the need to hospitalize patients there who can be hospitalized in other settings. According to them, the burden in the corona wards can be reduced by 30% by releasing patients to the community, including patients from geriatric institutions, psychiatric patients and dialysis patients.
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There are currently over 40 dialysis patients infected with corona and hospitalized because there are no isolated dialysis units for these patients. "A comprehensive solution must be produced for the provision of dialysis treatments in the community in each of the regions of the country. There are over 40 hospitalized people around the country who consume expensive corona beds," hospital representatives warned.
It also shows that about a quarter of those hospitalized in some of the wards are geriatric patients, complex nursing patients or chronic respirators, and it is necessary to open suitable institutions for them (for example - geriatric wards for corona patients).
Another population that is burdening the corona wards are corona-positive psychiatric patients, who in the absence of an appropriate framework are hospitalized in internal wards, and a population without status.
Experts point out in the "barometer report" that there is an urgent need to establish a national center to coordinate the transfer of these patients (transportation and alternative hospitalization framework), as today this administrative treatment is done by head nurses in hospitals and is time consuming.
Another team examined corona patients HMOs recommended adding 1,000 hospital beds in the house, will increase by 15% the number of hospital beds in the country. another recommendation: increase the hours of emergency medicine centers across the country (eg centers have not yet, or "Bikurofe").
"brink HMO managed to come Manifested in an increase in the volume of referrals to the emergency rooms and hospitalizations in the inpatient wards, compared to previous years. "As long as community medicine is strong and provides the right treatment at the right time to the residents of the State of Israel, the flooding of hospitals will also be prevented even during a period of epidemic, along with winter illness," the report reads. [Video]
