"The wave has not passed - the number of verified people is still high along with burdens in the hospitals,"
the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, said today (Tuesday) during a discussion in the health committee regarding the "collapse of the hospitals following the corona."
Prof. Ash: "Hospital congestion has taken a toll on human lives" // Yaakov Eliach, Spokeswoman for the Knesset
"We had close to 100,000 verified patients a day and the number of infected was close to twice that. Although the variant causes a mild disease, certainly for those who are vaccinated, in the end we reach a number of serious patients and it reached close to 200 serious patients a day," said Prof. Ash, adding: "Hospital congestion has not-so-simple prices. We have seen ambulances waiting at the entrance to the emergency room. The congestion has had a cost in human lives, treatment capacity is impaired and mortality is rising. It also has a price in the attrition of medical staff."
The director general of the Ministry of Health said that they would demand from the prime minister, who talks about the fact that growth has increased and there is an economic improvement as a result of everything being open in the economy - additional budgeting for the health system.
10,003 dead from Corona
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health published today the state of the spread of the corona in Israel, when 12,930 verified corona were discovered yesterday.
There are 112,271 active patients in Israel, of whom 753 are serious patients - a decrease of 40 patients from yesterday.
About 300 patients in critical condition, 224 respirators and 26 connected to Acme.
The coefficient of adhesion is 0.66.
As mentioned, the workload in the hospitals continues, with Sheba and Shaare Zedek hospitals occupying 107% and Assuta Hospital standing at 105%.
The death toll from the epidemic is 10,003 people, compared to 10,000 yesterday.
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