Disclosure The Ministry of Health report reveals: Along with a general trend of a decrease in the rate of infections, in wards used by patients with the virus - there is an increase • "Put more emphasis on treating corona than on preventing infections"
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The rate of infections in Israeli hospitals is declining, but in the intensive care units used by the Corona wards it seems to be on the rise, according to a report by the National Infection Prevention Unit at the Ministry of Health summarizing the first half of 2020, obtained by Israel Today.
Dealing with infections in hospitals is one of the challenges of the healthcare system.
Thousands of patients die each year from infections and this is the third leading cause of death in Israel, standing at about 6%.
In the past, the State Comptroller's report included a figure according to which between 6,000-4,000 people die in Israel each year from infections originating in hospitals. Recently, the Ministry of Health claimed that the number was lower and stood at about 3,000.
The report of the Ministry of Health reveals which of the intensive care units in Israel are the most polluted in the first half of 2020. The data show that the highest rate of infections among internal or surgical intensive care units was recorded in Ichilov Surgical Intensive Care (rate of 13 infections per 1,000 days of hospitalization). ), Followed by Hasharon Hospital (11.8) followed by internal intensive care at Hadassah Ein Kerem (11). Other hospitals with a high rate of infections are internal intensive care at Rambam (8.1), neurosurgical intensive care at Shaare Zedek (13.5), however In a new unit that reported only for two months.
The rate of infections is significantly higher compared to other hospitals in the field of pediatric intensive care at Schneider Hospital (14.1).
Hospitals with a low rate of infections are among the major hospitals: Haemek (0), Yoseftal (0), the Holy Family of Nazareth (0) and the intensive care units of Hadassah Mount Scopus (0), general intensive care in Meir (0.6) and internal intensive care In Soroka.
A hospital source noted that "the working assumption is that corona intensive care units had more acquired infections because there was less attention, a very large load and a great fear among staffs who tried not to infect themselves. They put more emphasis on corona treatment than on preventing infections."
Rachel Leikowitz, chairman of the Safe Medicine Association, said that "unfortunately, to live in the shadow of the corona epidemic is to live with an epidemic of infections in hospitals, which is reflected in periodic reports in the Ministry of Health."