The State Comptroller, Matanyahu Engelman, announced today (Monday) that he will conduct a review of the management of the corona crisis and the decision-making procedures in the government in the fourth and fifth waves.
"In previous waves we examined, among other things, the management of the crisis at the national level, the conduct of the Ministry of Health, including the testing system, economic plans and the actions of the Ministry of Education. We intend to examine some of these issues in the current wave.
The Comptroller stated that he would, among other things, audit the conduct of the government and the health system regarding the testing system, the decision-making process, the effectiveness of the testing complexes and the immunization system - including aspects of procurement and other accompanying processes.
State Comptroller: "We will examine the effectiveness of the corona testing system for decision-making"
"For two years the world has been dealing with the Corona on its various strains," Engelman noted. Of the last decades. "
Following a recent audit report on the neglect of the medical system in the north of the country, the visitor today visited the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya together with the center's director, Prof. Masad Barhum, and closely examined the hospital's corona hospitalization and medical condition in the north. And maternity, in the underground hospital and in the inpatient ward B.
Referring to the medical system in the north, the auditor said that "in a report we published in October 2021, on the subject of national plans for the development and implementation of the north, we found that the infant mortality rate in the north is 2.6 per 1,000 people - one of the highest in the country;
And that the rate of physicians in the Northern District is one of the lowest in the country - 2.2 physicians per 1,000 people, which constitutes about 50% of the rate of physicians in the Haifa, Central and Jerusalem districts.
"I expect the government to work to correct the shortcomings in the audit, and to examine the implementation of the recommendations in order to bring the most advanced medicine to the north."
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