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Fear: HMOs will not cope with the load Israel today

2022-01-24T21:39:44.171Z


Due to the spike in morbidity, in the cabinet the experts warn: "There is a potential for heavy workload and damage to treatment" • Prof. Ash for the hospitals: "Be prepared to add beds"


The omicron wave is especially burdensome on the HMOs.

These days there are more than half a million Israelis verified in Corona.

Although most of them do not need medical care, there are more than 76,000 of them who need medical attention and treatment.

According to the expert cabinet advising the Ministry of Health, headed by Prof. Ran Blitzer, the burden on the HMOs may lead to the exhausting of the response in the HMOs - and as a result will put more strain on the hospital system.

"There may be an impairment in the quality of care in the coming weeks due to an increase in the load in the inpatient institutions," the experts warned in the cabinet.

"The peak of serious morbidity and also the peak of infections are still ahead of us, and there is real potential for heavy workload and impairment of treatment capabilities and quality with significant costs.

"The main concern for excess mortality this time is not for respirators in intensive care but in inpatient, geriatric wards and among the elderly in the community, due to a decline in the quality of care due to the congestion."



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Only urgent treatments

Following the increase in the number of difficult patients, which reached 809 yesterday, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, instructed the hospital administrators to prepare for the addition of hospital beds and to reduce elective activity (non-urgent treatments) as much as possible.

"Corona patients can also be hospitalized in non-Corona intensive care units, if there are closed rooms and the patient can be isolated to the satisfaction of the unit for the prevention of infections in the hospital," Prof. Ash noted in his letter to the principals.

"Elective intensive care units, such as breast surgery or neurosurgery, can also be converted to corona intensive care."

Prof. Ash emphasized that "in an agreement with the Ministry of Finance and with the backing of the Prime Minister's Office, it was determined that there will be an indemnity for a decrease in revenues according to the data test to be held by March 1, 2022." Critical while cooperating with the heads of the hospital divisions. "

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Source: israelhayom

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