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Doctors declare labor dispute: "There are not enough standards to withstand the load"
The Medical Association decided on the move due to the non-allocation of required standards during the workload during the corona period, and the requirement to impose their funding on the hospitals. If they do not reach an agreement with the Treasury within two weeks, all the doctors in the public health system will sit down
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Maya Horodnitsano
Sunday, 09 August 2020, 21:05The Medical Association announced tonight (Sunday) a labor dispute that will apply to the entire public health system in Israel. The dispute was declared as a result of the non-allocation of standards required to meet the workload during the Corona period and due to the Finance Ministry's decision to impose on hospitals part of the funding of additional standards, which is expected to deepen existing deficits and require layoffs.
The Medical Association also clarified that the causes of the conflict include the intention to dismiss in bad faith doctors employed in hospitals through health corporations, partial payment to some doctors during the corona period, deduction of sick days from doctors who had to stay in isolation and lack of indemnity for doctors who had to spend a lot of money on children. When disabling frames.
If the parties do not reach an agreement within two weeks - the Histadrut will open organizational measures to the point of a general strike of 28,000 doctors in hospitals and community clinics.
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Extraordinary workload during the corona period. Doctors' protest, June"While the whole world to strengthen now the health systems and medical personnel, finance officials in Israel are engaged in those wars, control and ego, and those tricks that pull the blanket from side to side," IMA chairman Prof. Zion Haggai.
Haggai called on the health minister, Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Finance Israel Katz intervened and prevented further organizational measures. He said, "The Medical Association acted stately throughout the crisis, fully mobilized from the first moment, but if anyone thought we would stand aside in the face of harm to the medical community and the general public, we would have to blame him."