At the initiative of MK Sheetrit, the Finance Committee held a discussion on the deficits of the independent hospitals • Prof. Marin: "Instead of standards - get papers" • Dr. Hakim: "Shame to run a hospital"
Finance Committee
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Adina Velman, Spokeswoman for the Knesset
The Knesset Finance Committee today (Monday), at the request of MK Katie Sheetrit, held a discussion on the deficits of the independent hospitals: Hadassah, Shaare Zedek, Laniado, Maayan Hayeshua and the three hospitals in Nazareth. "I am ashamed to be the director of a hospital in the State of Israel in 2020 "Dr. Fahad Hakim, director of the English Hospital in Nazareth, said with a heavy heart.
He asked at the hearing: "Let us live. We are the ones who look Corona in the eye and fight the flu. Need one brave decision of yours, close the 2020 deficit. People in this war are being treated like this? As a hospital director I am waging a very stubborn war."
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According to him, the Finance Committee needs to make a decision - close the year 2020 for us. We need to prepare for winter quietly. We have added wards to a hospital - and we need your support. Make a brave decision. "Shaare Zedek CEO Prof. Ofer Marin joined the expression of severe frustration with the current situation in the independent hospitals.
"From the 8th to the 6th of the month, I am sitting on the head of the Ministry of Health who will transfer money to me so that I can pay salaries," said Prof. Marin, who added that "yesterday I dealt with how I pay Social Security. Hadassah, Laniado and Maayan Yeshua in the same basket. And at night in cash flow, we pay suppliers half a year after they transfer equipment to us. "
Prof. Ofer Marin // Photo: Noam Rivkin Fenton
Prof. Marin added that "there is no hospital in Israel that lives in a balanced budget. The state has taken the government hospitals and is flowing money into them by law - about NIS 2 billion is transferred to 50% of the hospital bed, plus pensions and risk management. In total, at least 3 billion. Clalit receives NIS 200 million in the law. There is a double tort here - resolving the flow of funds to other hospitals. "We are leaving 7 independent public hospitals that will be run on their own."
He said, "We are divided into two - hospitals that have already collapsed (Hadassah and Laniado have made a recovery plan) and hospitals like us that are doing our plans. The State Comptroller has determined that seven independent hospitals are doing better financially than the rest. We are in less large deficits. At this time we have not received any standards. We received papers. I say this with caution we have received less from the government. AA from the public hospitals did not receive standards. We went down in elective activity, this is damage of tens of millions of shekels "and we live from hand to mouth."