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Violence against medical staff:

Chen Mahlouf, a nurse at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot, told Israel Today about the case in which a family of the deceased threatened and attacked her.

In the health and homeland security committees, discussions are underway to eradicate the ugly phenomenon.

On the day he died, a patient who was hospitalized in the corona ward at Kaplan Hospital was visited by his family members Lachan Mahlouf, a nurse at the Kaplan boarding school, and instead of saying thank you, they threatened her and called her a murderer.

"They looked me straight in the eye and told me that I was a murderer and that I was to blame for their father's death. That I injected something into a member of their family and that he did not die of coronary heart disease.

"In the last wave of the Corona it led me to a very big emotional crisis," said Nurse Mahlouf,

"In the last wave of the Corona it led me to a very big emotional crisis. I was on the verge of breaking. There is an expectation that we will wrap up someone who has lost a family member so they dare to slap me in the face. I came from the purest place."

And this was not the only case where a patient's family cursed her.

In another case, Mahlouf suffered threatening harassment.

"There was a family that for a whole month after the mother passed away called the nurses station and asked to speak to me. They said they knew me personally and that they wanted to get my phone. I was not on duty at all when the mother passed away and luckily no one on staff gave them a phone number."

Mahlouf is a young nurse who entered the profession just two years ago.

"I love the profession and if I did not like it I could understand why people who have been subjected to violence do not want to continue working.

Knesset committees discussed the issue of violence in hospitals: "We must act with a heavy hand"

One in 5.5 workers in the health system has experienced violence, 17% of the more than ten thousand health workers in an "erosion survey" conducted by the Ministry of Health last year reported experiencing violence.

According to data from the Ministry of Health revealed in "Israel Today" since the beginning of the year, there were 110 cases of physical violence against medical staff and 1,675 cases of verbal violence or damage to property.

The Health Committee and the Internal Security Committee in the Knesset discussed the burning issue yesterday (Monday).

Dr. Sefi Mendelovich, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health, deals with the implementation of the recommendations of the Committee for the Treatment of Violence in the Health System: "There is an escalation in the level of violence. This is not what happened 14 years ago. ".

According to him, the number of police officers stationed in hospitals will soon double.

Today there are about seven hospitals where police officers are stationed.

The finance representative at the hearing said that the budget issue for this is in advanced discussions.

"We will not accept a situation where staff and patients are forced to hide for fear of violence."

Silman (archive), Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

Yoram Weiss, director of Hadassah, described the consequences of last week's severe violence incident "The next morning I found teams in post-trauma who felt threatened in their lives during this rampage. "Complaints. The medical institution should be allowed to file a complaint on behalf of the institution. It will be very helpful," he said.

The hearing revealed that there is a possibility that the security officers of the hospitals will complain on behalf of the doctors and there is also a possibility of filing an online complaint but there is a need for cooperation and testimony from a member of the attacked medical staff.

Health Committee Chairman MK Silman: "We will not accept a situation where doctors work under fear, we will not agree to a situation where medical staff and patients are forced to hide for fear of being beaten or workers will feel threatened and scared in their workplace while harming the system. In front of anyone who chooses to use violence in medical centers and towards medical staff "

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