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Even hospital administrators sell dangerous illusions to the public Israel today

2021-01-28T21:46:32.208Z


| In the country Senior health officials are trying to divert the discourse towards the vaccination campaign instead of facing the truth - the morbidity situation is very difficult, and closure is not a political issue • Most doctors estimate that it will be a long time, months and maybe much longer, Interpretation "I come here from Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, I went to the corona ward, the hospital director,


Senior health officials are trying to divert the discourse towards the vaccination campaign instead of facing the truth - the morbidity situation is very difficult, and closure is not a political issue • Most doctors estimate that it will be a long time, months and maybe much longer, Interpretation

"I come here from Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, I went to the corona ward, the hospital director, Prof. Yaniv Scherer, told me, 'You will soon see a special person, the ward director.' We arrived, it was impossible to talk to him. And why? Because he was inside, inside "The corona ward with all the protective clothing. The medical staff treated the elderly woman who is hospitalized intensively. By the time I finished the visit, this woman was no longer with us."

This is what Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said today (Thursday) during a joint visit with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Clalit Health Fund clinic in Arara, which is intended to encourage the insufficiently high level of immunization among the Bedouin sector.

Edelstein: "I think we need a short period of time to continue the restrictions" // Photo: Newsenders

Edelstein rightly warned that "the cheap political games around our medical demand to continue the closure - these are the things that ultimately lead to serious illness and also lead to mortality. I ask everyone to remember that anyone can contribute in the right behavior. Only then can we stop this trouble, We will have more time to continue the vaccinations and with God's help we will return to a life that we all miss so much. "

The sharp and very important present things of the Minister of Health are actually unusual and not at all unusual, in the face of the daily announcements of his spokesman who every morning boasts of the extensive and successful scale corona vaccination campaign on a global scale, here in Israel.

The operation really is the main means, even if not the only one, to try and deal successfully with the cunning deadly plague that has already caused more than 4,600 victims in the country, thousands of critically ill patients, some left with very severe and lasting damage, and economic and social damage to millions of Israelis.

But Edelstein's daily announcement has so far included almost no reference to the thousands of corona victims, including the dozens of deaths daily from the plague, nor to the very heavy loads in the corona wards that severely hurt patients' chances of recovery, nor to the shocking complaints of doctors, managers and family. The conduct of the Ministry of Health and some of the hospitals in the treatment of patients, as revealed in the "Shishvat" supplementary investigation. 

This public silence of Edelstein and the management of the Ministry of Health in front of the dozens of dead a day and the thousands of new patients is terrible and unforgivable.

The Minister of Health was expected to issue his daily message daily from another Corona ward where the bloody and tragic battle in the epidemic is taking place.

But not only does Edelstein rarely talk about the thousands of victims of the corona, almost all the other senior officials of the Ministry of Health and the health system, including all the masses and officials and those directly responsible for the fight against the plague, hardly talk about the dead.

And so the politicians, from right and left, from the coalition and the opposition, talk very little about them.

But the distraction and sale of illusions continues as many senior health officials in charge of the epidemic, including large hospital administrators, as well as some senior government ministers, have repeatedly sold false illusions to the public in recent days as if the closure is not necessary, as if it could easily end next week. It is, so to speak, a matter of political whim. 

Two of the largest hospital directors in Israel also stood out this week, saying this in media interviews without batting an eyelid, when in the same breath they explained how unbearable the workload in the corona wards is.

They both even shed crocodile tears on the air.

The third wave of the epidemic is hitting horribly in Israel and this time even more than the previous waves also in young people, including pregnant women, some of whom are hospitalized in a very serious condition in hospitals.

The Ministry of Health estimates that the British mutation that increased the infections and probably also the very serious illness, is one of the main reasons for the prolongation of the severe and very deadly third wave in Israel, as well as in many countries around the world.

Israel is a leader in vaccinating the population, but most doctors estimate that it will be a long time, months and perhaps much longer, until we achieve even in Israel a real and real effect of "herd vaccination", where most of the population is vaccinated and thus provides very significant protection against infections and serious illness.

Until then, it is necessary and obligatory to continue to maintain the restrictions of the corona and also to operate continuous closures, in order to save hundreds and thousands of Israelis from the serious illness and death.

According to the daily morbidity and mortality rates in Israel, the current closure should not end this coming Saturday night, even if there is, again, political pressure, some populist and irresponsible on the part of government ministers, to get out of the closure and return quickly to routine no matter what the price in human life.

There are many countries, advanced and enlightened, that given the epidemic data now in Israel would continue or enter a tight closure for many more weeks, and in any case do not dare to end it in the coming week.

In addition to all this, as part of an inconceivable and scandalous failure in the current closure, the Ministry of Health management does not deliberately place signs on the public about the severity of the situation (for example, what exactly are the occupancies / loads in hospitals that require closure or tightening). Concrete numerical goals in curbing the epidemic (such as new verified numbers per day, numbers of critically ill patients, death numbers and more) that will bring about and enable the exit from the quarantine.  

In the meantime, it is to be hoped that the quarantine will not end one day before there will be a sharp and consistent sharp decline in the outbreak of the plague, so that we can already stop counting the dozens of new dead from Corona every day.

Source: israelhayom

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