An unprecedented decision since the onset of the plague:
The Magistrate's Court in Be'er Sheva on Thursday ordered the opening of the Corona ward in the Ganei Omer adult village despite opposition from residents.
Judge Tomer Orinov refused to accept the demand not to establish a corona ward in an institution in the locality of Omar and ruled that the damage to southern residents, where such wards are lacking, far outweighs the residents' fear of being infected in Corona.
The unprecedented decision was made after the Ganei Omer adult village applied to the court for a restraining order to establish a corona ward next to them at the Beit Balav Rehabilitation Hospital in Omer, which is part of the Maccabi HMO's geriatric rehabilitation network.
In the request, they claimed, among other things, that "the establishment of the department has the potential to endanger the elderly population in the village, which is at risk of infection, and will lead to harm to the lives of the residents."
"Israel Today" has learned that the court's decision was preceded by struggles against the opening of the department, to the point of threatening a senior local councilor, Omar, who wrote to a senior member of the network that he wanted not to turn the place into a corona department.
In court, representatives of Beit Balav said that there was a national and strategic need to establish the corona ward in Omer because of the shortage of hospital places for corona patients in the south of the country, claiming that it was a "bullying act to prevent corona patients from entering the village."
During the court hearing, the prosecution's representative emphasized that the corona projector, Prof. Salman Zarqa, had himself come to check whether there was a risk in establishing the department, "in which the prime minister was also involved."
The judge ruled that "all the necessary health arrangements have been made to prevent or reduce the risk of infection of the villagers in the corona, and a separation will be made between the corona department and the other tenants and areas of the village."
The director of the Beit Balev chain, Dr. Galit Kaufman, said: "This is a national principle in which we are required to manage the epidemic treatment in the State of Israel in accordance with national and not local needs. I look forward to a good neighborhood with Ganei Omer Our older one. "
Following the decision, the Corona ward at Beit Balev in Omer was opened on Friday, with 45 hospital beds.
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