Minister Edelstein was asked to bring vaccines to patients early before teaching staff • "It is not possible that considerations other than public health will guide the prioritization"
"It is important that chronic patients be vaccinated to prevent corona complications"
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Oren Ben Hakon
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Association for Patient Rights asks Health Minister Yuli Edelstein to bring forward vaccinations for Corona to chronic patients under the age of 60 - and to summon them to be vaccinated before a group of teaching staff.
Currently, the vaccine is given from the age of 60 and up.
At the independent initiative of Clalit and Maccabi, chronic patients aged 55 and over and nationally aged 50 and over are also vaccinated.
In addition, HMOs store cancer patients with hematologic diseases and organ transplants.
Data from the Ministry of Health show that more than two-thirds of the vaccines (66%) were given to those aged 60 and over, and that 46% of those aged 60 and over have already been vaccinated.
"We hear about pressures from various groups of workers to prioritize the vaccine against the corona virus, each group and its reasons," says Shmulik Ben Yaakov, director general of the Patient Rights Association. "We demand that the HMOs and storage bodies be instructed that the group of chronic patients is below By age 60 the next group will be vaccinated, right after the elderly.
It is not possible that considerations other than public health will guide the prioritization. "
He added: "The group of chronic patients (diabetes, hypertension, etc.) is one of the risk groups that are severely affected by the corona. Therefore, it is important that these patients receive the vaccine as a high priority, in order to prevent coronary heart disease complications. "Those who are not chronically ill and younger than the age of 60, even if, God forbid, contract the virus, will in the vast majority of cases pass the disease relatively easily, compared to the chronic patients, who are in the risk groups."
Aryeh Kuperman, CEO of the Association for Pulmonary Hypertension: "We are experiencing great difficulty in obtaining approvals for the corona vaccine.
These are chronic patients whose condition is serious.
The state has invested so many resources in saving their lives, whether it be in doctors and procedures, but when it comes to a vaccine that could save their lives - they experience disregard.
It is important to remember that every little thing throws the patients off balance, and the vaccine will prevent their condition from deteriorating or becoming life-threatening. "