Three days before the start of the shortening of shifts, it is not clear to any of the parties what will happen on April 1.
What is certain is that no new doctors have been absorbed into the system and the shift schedule still does not include any shortcuts.
The Histadrut held a press conference today (Tuesday) at which the chairman of the Histadrut, Prof. Zion Hagai, announced that "the outline of the abbreviation is an outline of the detached, an inapplicable outline.
The interns' salary will hurt thousands of shekels. "
Also, students from the prescription tried to break into the yeshiva, seeking to start immediately by implementing the shortening of shifts: "This is a disgrace. A press conference aimed at breaking the law. You sold us. Doing one hand with the treasury."
The Ministry of Health attacked the Medical Association and claimed that "unfortunately, alongside the public position, the Medical Association constantly acted to thwart or delay the move to shorten shifts. For example, the Medical Association tried to prevent the transfer of information and data from hospitals to the Ministry of Health."
A press conference of the Medical Association, Photo: Yossi Zeliger
They also mentioned that "the Histadrut was a leading partner in the implementation team for shortening shifts, and even in this forum, the representatives of the Histadrut did not express opposition to the outline, until the team reached the summary stages."
The Minister of Economy and the Ministry of Health have made it clear that they are determined to start shortening the shifts on April 1.
It was further clarified that the hospital directors will not be held criminally liable if they are not shortened and the responsibility will apply to the Ministries of Health and Finance.
"Want to negotiate a workable and real solution"
The Ministry of Health stated that "in accordance with the permit of the Minister of Economy, which was agreed between her and the Ministers of Health and Finance last October, the Ministry of Health is currently embarking on a historic move to shorten the working hours of interns."
Interns broke into a press conference, Photo: Yossi Zeliger
Leah Wepner, secretary general of the Histadrut, did not explain why the Histadrut opposes an outline that even a committee of the Histadrut itself, headed by Prof. Klausner, agreed was one of the possible outlines for shortening, but said at the press conference: "The data we saw are alarming.
In order to shorten shifts, it is necessary to collect 49 standards at Ziv Hospital, 48 in Nahariya and 21. Barzilai's salaries will be reduced to NIS 6,000 and over the years half a million shekels will be lost for pensions.
That is something we could not sit still and agree to. "
Omri Cohen, secretary of the interns' organization of the RAI: "This thing cannot happen.
There is an outline here that tries to force interns in the periphery to work almost every weekend and we will not allow that.
Threaten to drive us crazy with a salary earmarked for mortgages and kindergartens.
We're not ready for that.
We turned to the Ministry of Health, we want to negotiate a workable and real solution and not a populist outline. We want us to compete with interns with interns. There is no chance that we will degenerate into a war of tensions and colleagues. The Treasury. "
Behind the scenes, the Medical Association is promoting another outline for shortening shifts.
In a committee chaired by Dr. Sefi Mendelovich, they presented that they are interested in returning to the table an outline that includes naps and shortens the working day by about 4 hours.
Minister of Economy and Industry Orna Barbibai: "Interns in Israel do not have to work 26 hours in a row. The ministers of health and finance are required to bridge the gaps and give hospital administrators the tools needed to implement the permit, just as agreed between the parties."
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