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"People follow the guidelines": The health system concludes a week for the abbreviated isolation outline Israel today

2022-01-25T14:39:48.469Z


HMOs summarize the beginning of the new outline that transferred most of the responsibility to citizens • Dr. Roni Farber from Meuhedet: "People turn and ask, it indicates responsibility" • Dr. Arnon Shachar from Maccabi: "There is still concern, but we are at a stage where we can To give tools to the citizen who will be responsible for his health "


The health system concludes today (Tuesday) the first week of the abbreviated isolation outline, which shifts the responsibility to the patient, whether in performing self-tests at home or in reporting to the authorities on infection with the virus.

The doctors' conclusions so far are clear - the public for the most part adheres to the guidelines and the health system functions and manages to treat not only the corona patients, but also the rest of the patients and patients.

"It's true that it is not possible to know what everyone is doing in their home, but the very fact that people come to us for unified inquiries and questions from people about what happens if the test is still positive or what happens if they still have symptoms on Thursday is a sign that people are following instructions," says Dr. Roni. Farber, director of the public health department at Meuhedet. "We have a dialogue with the public, but probably if there is a person who does not do tests at home, we will not pick up the phone to ask and find out."

Loads in queues for corona tests at the Ma'ale Adumim testing complex // Photo: Yoni Rickner

He said, "We have a Corona hotline and people in isolation are calling to see if they can be released. We send every verified questionnaire to fill out. There are people who report that they are symptomatic and ask if they can leave and we tell them to stay until the seventh day. "If he seems to have symptoms, it indicates responsibility."

Farber added that "from the moment the state made this decision to shorten the isolation it transferred in most cases the responsibility to the public. The numbers we see now are astronomers and as a health system we could not absorb it if the responsibility was fully on the health system. The system would collapse."

He added: "There are many things in uncertainty, but it is important to keep the population at risk and the health care system to continue to operate and treat the other patients. "He will do it one way or another. I believe most of the population does not want to be infected and infected. Everyone has a grandfather or older parents and everyone is trying to keep their God plot healthy."

Queue for tests in Holon, Photo: Liron Moldovan

Dr. Arnon Shachar, director of the corona unit at Maccabi and a member of the team for the treatment of epidemics, notes that even at Maccabi the release from isolation was based on the patient's self-report in a questionnaire sent to him that he had no symptoms and that he performed the required tests.

"A person should be responsible. The majority do and listen and take care of themselves and the environment. The responsibility lies with the citizen. We learn from experience in changing the big guidelines. In the first days there is a lot of ambiguity and it takes time to instill paradigm shift. "It makes sense. As a doctor I want no one to catch and infect but due to the large workload of our staff, we are at a stage where we can give more tools to the citizen who will be responsible for his own health," he concluded.

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Source: israelhayom

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