Following the serious violence that occurred today at the Clalit Health Services Clinic in Beer Yaakov, tonight (Tuesday) the secretariat of the Medical Association decided to launch a two-day general strike this coming Thursday and Friday, in all hospitals and community clinics.
The chairman of the Medical Association, Prof. Zion Hagai, said at the end of the meeting: "In the past year, we have made it unequivocally clear that any case of violence will encounter zero tolerance on our part.
The latest strike has led to an important government decision to place police stations in emergency rooms and allocate the necessary manpower, but we must look at things solely at the level of field implementation.
"As long as we do not see real actions in the immediate term, we will intensify the steps until someone here wakes up and understands that violence in the health system is a real epidemic."
Prof. Hagai reiterated the demand to also strengthen the security systems in the community clinics, since today it became clear once again that the medical staff are exposed to violence in the entire health system.
Earlier in the day, police arrested a resident of Be'er Ya'akov on suspicion of using an iron bar to attack a doctor at a health fund in the city using an iron bar.
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The suspect, in his thirties, came to the HMO to receive medical treatment.
A few minutes later he began to rage, grabbed an iron bar and used it to hit the doctor on the head.
The doctor was slightly injured and was evacuated to Sheba Medical Center.
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