Failure in the clinic: The ceiling of the building collapsed because of the rain, and hundreds remained untreated

The ceiling in the clinic in Colla was collapsed earlier this week due to rainfall, but some of the ceilings had fallen earlier, something that may have been dealt with. According to the municipality, which is conducting an exchange of accusations with the Ministry of Health, the mishap only became known after the Walla appeal! NEWS, meanwhile, a closure order Take it out

The service was discontinued for hundreds of patients. The clinic in Petah Tikva

Mental Health Clinic in Petah Tikva (Photo: Official Website)

The ceiling of the mental health clinic in Petah Tikva collapsed earlier this week as a result of rainfall, resulting in the service being discontinued for hundreds of patients in the clinic until an unknown date. According to the municipality, the mishap first became known after Walla's appeal! NEWS and staff were dispatched to the scene, but the Ministry of Health said the ministry had applied for a request for treatment of the structure - but that was delayed. It is not yet clear when the clinic will reopen, and in the meantime, the mental contenders are doomed to wait.

The case happened on Sunday morning and the clinic, which employs more than 60 staff, experts and administrators, was closed. According to sources in detail, parts of the ceiling began to fall during the past week, something that is likely to be dealt with, and on Sunday, a final collapse in the eastern wing. Some of the rooms were flooded with rainwater that penetrated from the roof to the building, gypsum ceilings collapsed and disintegrated and computers and equipment were soaked and destroyed by the numerous water flowing into the building.

The Ministry of Health issued a closure order, and all clinic staff were asked to evacuate it. According to those officials, for years the government office has neglected the clinic's structure located on Ahad Ha'am Street in the city. The community clinic is a veteran and professional mental health clinic that provides services to severely distressed patients on a daily basis, and includes a specialized unit that answers urgent cases.

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A closing order was issued. The clinic in Petah Tikva

Mental Health Clinic in Petah Tikva (Photo: Official Website)

"There is an unbearable ease in the fact that people in crisis and dealing with difficult problems who cannot afford private non-public health care - are marginalized and denied the right to receive proper care," said one. "Clinicians and clinicians are coming to a place that the Ministry of Health has neglected for years because it wants to not deal with it at all and throw everything into the health funds. The government does not really care about the disadvantaged population and proper care conditions for it and for its service workers," he added.

A person who visited the clinic said the clinic "looked really bad. The ceiling could collapse on people even while being treated. It's a shame to see the results of years of neglect, after only five years ago the same clinic was closed in the same city and for the same reasons. You could even be notified that there is no treatment because there is no electricity, computers and system. "

The Ministry of Health stated in response that "the building in which the clinic is located is owned by the Petah Tikva Municipality in a rental agreement through the government housing. The Ministry has applied for treatment of the structure for the Petah Tikva Municipality, in accordance with its responsibility under the rental agreement. Due to the fact that the treatment on the issue was delayed, the ministry took responsibility and began handling "The office is working on an in-depth overhaul of the clinic, and a tender on this issue is expected soon. Immediate response is given in recent days and clinic is expected to reopen its doors in the coming days. Some patients have responded to other clinics according to the preference of the therapeutic staff."

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"Clinic staff did not contact authority and did not update on rain damage"

The Petah Tikva Municipality said: "We were surprised by the query that was in fact the first to inform us that the mental health clinic belonging to the Ministry of Health is located in a building belonging to the municipality. The clinic staff did not contact the Authority and did not update the rain damage, and so only now we received the query. Upon arrival of city staff, it became clear that a number of tiles had fallen into the acoustic ceiling as a result of wetness, a local authority official noted that the moisture had been created as a result of unprofessional maintenance work that the clinic commissioned without informing the authority - The property. "

The municipality also stated that "At the same time, today, before the line of law, the Social Services and Health Department was asked to help locate rooms for applicants, a request that was filed there. It is unclear why you were contacted (to Walla! NEWS) and not to the authority to request the correction, but In any case, an ISA staff handles the issue until it is fixed.

Dr. Zvi Fishel, chairman of the Israel Psychiatric Association, said: "Like many other structures in the psychiatric system, the mental health clinic in Petah Tikva is too old and not maintained and unfortunately this is the result. Disabling the clinic due to the inclement weather is just one example. Many kinds of disgusting conditions by the medical staff and their patients. The Psychiatry Association has again demanded from the Ministry of Health to allocate the funds promised to the psychiatrists for new construction and renovation of buildings, which in many cases still exist in the state. Unfortunately, our pleas fall on deaf ears. Health is showing responsibility and allocating the money to citrus The improvement of mental health structures. "